Hi All, I'm in same desired state. Mine is simple, created a VLAN playbook and ran across two Arista switches & works fine.
But one of the guy asked me can we able to pick and choose VLAN ID, VLAN NAME like prompting users to enter the value and Ansible goes and configures to switches. Instead me going and writing VLAN ID and NAME on the playbook. Please any advise would be greatly appreciated, I'm very new to this ansible world. Thanks Hari On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 12:16:40 PM UTC+10, Andrew wrote: > Hello, > > I'm attempting to make some things happen with nested playbooks. Seems > like including full on playbooks (as opposed to "taskbooks") from within > "tasks" is not supported as described here > <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/15309#issuecomment-206786728>. > Doing > vars, vars_files, vars_prompts are not supported when including at the > playbook level is not supported. Also, doing variable substitution at this > level is also tricky. Doing variable substitution with variables supplied > at the inventory level (IE group_vars) is not supported. This also seems to > be the case with group_vars at the playbook level. However, extra-vars are > able to be substituted as described here > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/WdvouAZ3BUM/ORDHjqCZgJAJ> > . > > I figured maybe I'd be able to get around some of these things by using > callbacks or vars_plugins. Callbacks seem to happen after playbook parsing > so that is a no go. The vars_plugins don't seem to be able to access > variables at the same scope that extra-vars are at. I can manipulate the > 'all' group but that doesn't seem to matter. Judging by the post in the > previous link a dynamic inventory wont' help. > > Only solution I'm seeing currently is creating some sort of wrapper around > ansible-playbook that passes the correct extra-vars or requiring my users > to pass something which I'm not really fond of. Is there any way I can > extend Ansible to allow for manipulating the extra-vars variables so I can > do variable substitution at the playbook level? > > Any help would be much appreciated. I am usually able to navigate around > any Ansible problems I have but seem to be stuck on this one. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
