Hi Jacek, this should work for you:

- set_fact: address_variable='localhost'
  when: 'server' in group_names
- set_fact: address_variable='server_address_here'
  when: 'server' not in group_names
- template: ...

The "group_names" variable is a special variable that contains a list of
the groups the current host is in.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Jacek <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> Perhaps it's an easy question but I cannot find a way to answer it myself.
>
> More in details -- I have two groups in my inventory: clients (many
> hosts) and server (single host), and a template at the client which needs
> to use the server address. If it happens that a client host is also in the
> 'server' group, I wanted to set the address in the template to 'localhost'.
> Otherwise, the address should point to the server address as specified in
> the inventory. I guess it's quite easy to code it using jinja2 directly in
> the template but my template includes many places with such a reference, so
> I thought about first setting the server address variable, and then using
> this variable to evaluate the template. Is this correct way of thinking?
> How can I set a variable in a play before template evaluation? Otherwise,
> have you got any other ideas?
>
>   Cheers,
>   Jacek
>
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