same variable on different roles

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Hi

I want to ask what is expected behaviour on variables. So for example I have two roles and on vars i have same variable name like tmp_dir but pointing on different directories

role1/vars/
role2/vars/

and what happens if i create a yml file contains

roles:

  • role1
  • role2

I was thinking while running role1 tmp_dir value will be used from role1/vars/main.yml and when running role2 tmp_dir variable is taken from role2/vars/main.yml. But it seems either something has changed with 2.8 or I was wrong from the beginning.

Also what should i do to realize my goal (using different variable value for same variable name on different role)

Regards.

2

It's woking great for me.

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.8.0

$ more roles/role{1,2}/{tasks,vars}/main.yml | cat
::::::::::::::
roles/role1/tasks/main.yml
::::::::::::::

3

Hi,

Actually that is what I expect but don’t know what happened but now variables seems to be all combined so I can’t use same variable name to contain different values on different roles.

Regards.

4

You are probably also setting the variables other places?
Since variables in Ansible are global they are overwritten according to this precedence list
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#variable-precedence-where-should-i-put-a-variable