First of all, both are valid ways of writing conditionals. >From the execution standpoint, the main difference is that the list version will be evaluated in order, one at a time by Ansible passing each item to Jinja. While the other one will be passed as one item into Jinja. This creates a minor change in efficiency depending on the amount of conditions and the likelyhood of failure, but for most cases (less than 100 conditionals) I would consider it negligible.
>From a practical standpoint, the 2nd form is easier to put into a variable and compose 'ANDed' conditions by adding to a list, you only need to ensure each condition's correctness, not the aggregated whole. The first form on the other hand supports 'OR' conditions also. In the end I would consider it a preference issue, though most Ansible users are used to the 2nd form and might get confused by the first, but that is only a consideration when/if sharing the content. -- ---------- Brian Coca (he/him/yo) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CACVha7fDShTB-g-68uo%3DnMAqZXOVM2Oq3i%2BWUsGgM-nGXSNiRg%40mail.gmail.com.
