spikerobinson
marcusphi
/ ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml
Created
October 2, 2013 09:48
Ansible 1.3 Conditional Execution -- Very complete example with comments -- I find the conditional expressions to be ridiculously hard to get right in Ansible. I don't have a good model of what's going on under the surface so I often get it wrong. What makes it even harder is that there has been at least three different variants over the course …
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| # This has been tested with ansible 1.3 with these commands: | |
| # ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts isFirstRun=false" | |
| # ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts isFirstRun=true" | |
| # ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts" | |
| # NB: The type of the variable is crucial! | |
| - name: Ansible Conditionals Examples | |
| hosts: $hosts | |
| vars_files: |