Host variables with dict value?

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In my playbook yaml file I had something like:

vars:
vpc: {id: vpc-12345, net: 10.0.0.0/16}

and it worked when I referenced it:

  • name: Launch instance
    local_action:
    module: ec2
    vpc_subnet_id: ‘{{vpc.id}}’

I want to move these variables into dev- and prod-specific hosts file vars so I tried:

[local]
vpc = {id: subnet-12345, net: 10.0.0.0/16}

and even variations like:

vpc = ‘{{ { id = subnet-12345, net = 10.0.0.0/16 } }}’

but in my play this is being seen as a string (or unicode, respectively) and generating errors: “‘str object’ has no attribute ‘id’”, or “‘unicode object’ has no attribute id”

Is there a way to set these host vars to dicts (or other objects) in these ini-style host files? Or am I limited to simple strings?

Thanks.

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Hi Chris,

Look at the documentation for how to store files in group_vars/foo and host_vars/foo in YAML format.

You can’t store structured data directly in the INI file.

–Michael

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Looks good, thanks for the pointer, Michael.