Additionally you can make syslog_service a dictionary value with keys for
the different versions:
vars/main.yml
syslog_service:
"6": syslog
"7": rsyslog
Then just do:
- name: Ensure syslog is running
service: name="{{ syslog_service[ansible_distribution_major_version] }}"
state=running enabled=yes
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Allen Sanabria <[email protected]>
wrote:
> include_vars is your friend.
>
> For instance in tasks/main.yml you can say..
> - include_vars: RedHat6.yml
> when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release == "6"
>
> - include_vars: RedHat7.yml
> when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release == "7"
>
>
>
> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 10:54:25 AM UTC-7, ZillaYT wrote:
>>
>> 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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