Mutiple Version Maintain in PlayBooks

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Hi ,

We are using ansible playbook for new package installation .

How to maintain mutiple version of packages ( jdk1.6 , jdk1.6.1 and jdk1.6.2) .

We need to write new role like
role / jdk1.6
role / jdk1.6.1
role / jdk1.6.2

OR

Can we handle single role ? ( Is it possible )

role / jdk

Please let me know - which one is best ?

Thanks,
S.Sivakumar

2

I use role’s default/main.yml to set a version: variable, which can be overriden when calling the role.​

3

See http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html#roles and the following example of passing values to parameterized roles:

---

- hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - common
    - { role: foo_app_instance, dir: '/opt/a',  port: 5000 }
    - { role: foo_app_instance, dir: '/opt/b',  port: 5001 }