Use a specific variable within a playbook base on the tag defined

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Hi All,

Hope anyone could help me!

Basically i have a playbook that configures sudoers commands for a particular user. In this playbook is a command that has to use a {{ variable }}. This variable differs dependent on the environment i.e. dev/prod.

Content of files:
#In my root directory main.yml is this:

  • hosts: all

become: True
roles:

  • configure_sudoers
    tags:
  • environment: dev

in my role playbook is this:

  • block:

tags:

  • dev

  • prod

  • name: Create sudoers commands for user
    blockinfile:

This is only one line so why use blockinfile?

path: “/etc/sudoers.d/user”
create: yes
block: |
user ALL=(ALL) /bin/systemctl status omsagent-{{ workspace_id }}.service

You should definitely use validate to avoid expensive mistakes

In my vars files is this:

workspace_id: this_id_for_dev
workspace_id: this_id_for_prod

This can’t be in the same file.

Example Scenario:
So if i run the main.yml playbook with tag=dev, I want the role to configure sudoers command and only pass in the workspace_id for dev

The same would be if i ran the main.yml playbook with tag=prod

It’s not clear if this different option are on the same target machine? Or are there multiple targets that each have a different sudoers file?