Hello Anyone here can guide me on Ansible ?
I have created a role for AEM(Adobe Experience Manager) Author and Publisher. They both have exact same instructions however as per role their variables do change. One server per role. One server cannot have two roles.
Variable values are to be dictated by tag. We have two or more VM’s but Ansible code should grab the value of the variable depending on tag. Has anyone done this before? If yes a code snippet or article would be appreciated.
So as you see in the above snippet, looping variables should be fed as per server. If no tag is given then it should feed in the variable and in fact skip it.
not sure whether I understand your goal right. I assume you want to have given group of tasks for each kind of server/host inside the same playbook.
One possibility would be to organize the playbook tasks inside different blocks and have a hosts definition for each of these blocks. A, B can be single hosts or groups from inventory.
the way I understand it you want your Playbook to only copy the license.properties file to the location in author_folder if the tag aem_author is specified und to the location publishe_folder when the playbook is invoked with the aem_publish tag?
If this is the case then I think the most common way would be to always copy to the location specified in a variable dest_folder which is set per host or group in your inventory.
If for some reason you have to be able to set it via tags, than I would probably would use set_fact in combination with tags to specify the variable content accordingly:
name: Set destination for Author
set_fact:
dest_folder: “{{ author_folder }}”
tags:
aem_author
name: Set destination for Publisher
set_fact:
dest_folder: “{{ publishe_folder }}”
tags: