Add conditional logic to variable files?

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I’ve been using Ansible Galaxy roles from Jeff Geerling. In his Github READMEs he seems to say that you can override variable settings in his default/main.yml and vars/*.yml files by reproducing the desired settings in a /vars/main.yml file and then re-assigning them your desire values. This works well but there are times when I’d like to use the following logic in that file:

`

vars/main.yml

enable_setting: true
…

if enable_setting
foo: bar
else
baz: barf
`

Is this possible? I didn’t see this mentioned in the Ansible docs on Variables and Conditionals.

Thanks.

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data files have no logic, but you can use a templated value instead:

foo: "{{ enabled_setting|ternary('bar', '') }}"
baz: "{{ enabled_setting|ternary('', 'barf') }}"