Hello Jon,
Thank you so much for the idea.
Cheers....
On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:16:52 PM UTC-5 J Hawkesworth wrote:
> I would try and organize variables so they are associated with the host in
> inventory, rather than setting a lot of playbook vars
>
> # ansible inventory (notice both hosts in a group called 'appservers' )
>
> [appservers]
>
> app_server_node1 appprops_file=node1-appprops.config
> app_server_node2 appprops_file=node2-appprops.config
>
>
> *Playbook YML File (running by different user)*
> ---
> - name: Test Template
>
> hosts: appservers
>
> tasks:
> - name: Copying the properties file
> copy:
> src: '/ConfigurationFolder/WrapperConfig/temp/{{appprops_file}}'
>
> dest: '/appserver/instance/conf/app_properties.conf'
> owner: app1
> group: app1
> mode: 0644
>
> Ansible will put
> */ConfigurationFolder/WrapperConfig/temp/*node1-appprops.config
> on node1 and */ConfigurationFolder/WrapperConfig/temp/*node2-appprops.config
> onto node2. No need to use template as you can use the appprops_file
> variable which is different for each host.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jon
>
> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 8:34:07 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hello Group,
>>
>> Requesting for advise or solution.
>> The idea/objective is to have the specific filename to copy to the
>> specific node as the SRC path.
>>
>> *Filename*
>> node1-appprops.config
>> node2-appprops.config
>>
>> *Server Host*
>> app_server_node1
>> app_server_node2
>>
>> *SRC Patch*
>> /ConfigurationFolder/WrapperConfig/temp
>>
>> Someone says to use Jinja2 Template and I have created the file,
>> copy_appprops_node.j2. And, the j2 contains like...
>>
>> *J2 Template*
>>
>>
>> *{% if ansible_hostname is match(" app*node1") %}
>> /ConfigurationFolder/WrapperConfig/temp/{{nodeID1}}- appprops.config {%
>> endif %}*
>>
>>
>>
>> *{% if ansible_hostname is match(" app*node2") %}
>> /ConfigurationFolder/WrapperConfig/temp/{{nodeID2}}- appprops.config {%
>> endif %}*
>>
>> *Playbook YML File (running by different user)*
>> ---
>> - name: Test Template
>> hosts: app_host
>> vars:
>> nodeID1: node1
>> nodeID2: node2
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: Copying the properties file
>> template:
>> src: copy_appprops_node.j2
>> dest: "/appserver/instance/conf/app_properties.conf"
>> owner: app1
>> group: app1
>> mode: 0644
>> ...
>>
> # ansible inventory (notice both hosts in a group called 'appservers' )
>>
>> *[appservers]*
>> app_server_node1 appprops_file=node1-appprops.config
>> app_server_node2 appprops_file=node2-appprops.config
>>
> Any help and assistance would be highly appreciated.
>> Or, any idea that will work from the objective.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Cheers....
>>
>
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