workaround for using a variable list of vars with include

Archives Ansible Developer
1

Hi everyone,

I need to include a playbook which essentially contains a set of initialisation tasks for any set of variables passed to it. Like so:

    • include: upstart_common_init.yml

  2. vars:

  3. program_name: “{{ item.service_name }}”

  4. program_config_options: “–config-file /etc/xyz/{{ item.service_conf }}”

  5. system_user: “{{ system_user_name }}”

  6. system_group: “{{ system_group_name }}”

  7. service_home: “{{ system_home_folder }}”

  8. with_items: some_services

  9. when: >

  10. inventory_hostname in groups[item.service_group] and

  11. item.service_en == true

  12. tags:

    • upstart-init

Where the some_services is a dictionary of services:

some_services:

  • { service_name: abc, service_en: True, service_conf: abc.ini, service_group:abc_group }

  • { service_name: def, service_en: True, service_conf: def.ini, service_group:def_group }

I know with_items isn’t supported with include so I get the following error:

  1. ERROR: [DEPRECATED]: include + with_items is a removed deprecated feature, Please update your playbooks.

What would be a reasonable way to implement the above block of code?

Thanks,
J

2

actually, in 2.0 we 'resurrect' include + with_items. so it depends on
which version of ansible you are running.

3

yes, however with ansible 2.0-beta1 I see the included task is uh, included. but any task defined in it are not executed.

a playbook such as;

vars:
mysql_databases:

  • { name: stg_snd, collation: utf8_general_ci, encoding: utf8, replicate: 0, import_s3_backup: false}
  • { name: dev_snd, collation: utf8_general_ci, encoding: utf8, replicate: 0, import_s3_backup: false }
  • { name: prd_snd, collation: utf8_general_ci, encoding: utf8, replicate: 0, import_s3_backup: true }

tasks:

  • name: mysql | import databases from backup
    include: “{{ playbook_dir }}/roles/provision.mysql/tasks/import_s3_backup.yml”
    with_items: “{{ mysql_databases | list }}”
    when: “{{ item.import_s3_backup | default(false) }} == true”

and this task file

  • debug: msg=“Boo”

the output is TASK [mysql | import databases from backup] ************************************
skipping: [s02.localhost] => (item={u’collation’: u’utf8_general_ci’, u’import_s3_backup’: False, u’replicate’: 0, u’name’: u’plhw_stg_sandalinos’, u’encoding’: u’utf8’}) => {“changed”: false, “item”: {“collation”: “utf8_general_ci”, “encoding”: “utf8”, “import_s3_backup”: false, “name”: “stg_snd”, “replicate”: 0}, “skip_reason”: “Conditional check failed”, “skipped”: true}
skipping: [s02.localhost] => (item={u’collation’: u’utf8_general_ci’, u’import_s3_backup’: False, u’replicate’: 0, u’name’: u’plhw_dev_sandalinos’, u’encoding’: u’utf8’}) => {“changed”: false, “item”: {“collation”: “utf8_general_ci”, “encoding”: “utf8”, “import_s3_backup”: false, “name”: “dev_snd”, “replicate”: 0}, “skip_reason”: “Conditional check failed”, “skipped”: true}
included: {{ playbook_dir }}/roles/provision.mysql/tasks/import_s3_backup.yml for s02.localhost => (item={u’collation’: u’utf8_general_ci’, u’import_s3_backup’: True, u’replicate’: 0, u’name’: u’prd_snd’, u’encoding’: u’utf8’})

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
s02.localhost : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0

No ‘Boo’ is outputted.

I can place any string as the include argument (path) no error no different output. It will bravely tell me ‘included: non/existing/path/to/task.yml’, yes that is incorrect

4

it has been fixed : https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/12654