Something Similar to Ruby's Case Operator

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Hi all
We have a mix of Debian and Redhat in our infrastructure so basically for every single step, I have to add two of the same operators for both of them, like this:

  • name: Install prerequisite packages
    action: apt pkg={{item}} state=installed
    with_items:

  • sysstat
    when: ansible_os_family == ‘Debian’

  • name: Install prerequisite packages
    action: yum pkg={{item}} state=installed
    with_items:

  • sysstat
    when: ansible_os_family == ‘RedHat’

Does Ansible have an operator similar to the case operator in Ruby or Chef and Puppet for that matter?

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There is no case statement in ansible.

You can look into “group_by” when eliminating repeated conditionals if this works for you.

  • hosts: webservers
    tasks:

  • group_by: key=os-{{ ansible_os_family }}

  • hosts:webservers:&os-Debian
    tasks:

  • …

etc