Having a lot of -name/when task blocks is just ugly infrastructure. I have
to think of a better way. There's GOT to be a better way.
On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 1:45:02 PM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On 01. sep. 2016 18:02, ZillaYT wrote:
> > I'm writing a role to configure syslog, and of course the service is
> > different between Linux instances. How do I do this in var/main.yml?
>
> The directory must be vars not var.
>
>
> > # pseudo-code in vars/main.yml
> > if Redhat7.x
> > syslog_service: rsyslog
> > else if RedHat6.x
> > syslog_service: syslog
> > end
>
> It's not possible, vars/main.yml can only contain variable definitions,
> not logic.
>
>
> > So then I can just do this in tasks/main.yml
> >
> > - name: Ensure syslog is running
> > service: name="{{ syslog_service }}" state=running enabled=yes
>
> You must split it in two tasks.
> ansible_os_family and ansible_lsb.major_release values is probably wrong
> so you need to find the correct ones.
>
> - name: Ensure syslog is running on Redhat 6.x
> service: name=syslog state=running enabled=yes
> when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release ==
> "6"
>
> - name: Ensure syslog is running on Redhat 7.x
> service: name=rsyslog state=running enabled=yes
> when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release ==
> "7"
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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