I haven't migrated to group_vars yet, so try and let us know ;)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at>
wrote:

> On 29.01.2015 10:47, Tomas Mozes wrote:
>
> > Have your IPs listed in hosts-production.
> >
> > For each site create a file, like:
> >
> > site_A.yml
> > - hosts: site_A
> >   roles:
> >     - ...
> >
> > site_B.yml
> > - hosts: site_B
> >   roles:
> >     - ...
> >
> > Then create site.yml where you include site_A.yml and site_B.yml.
> > Mostly, you will not only use roles inclusion, but have something
> > special done on the server, so either you create a role corresponding to
> > this file (like role site_A, site_B) where you name the tasks or you put
> > it directly in the site_A.yml, site_B.yml file. This is the stuff unique
> > to the server, like creating a specific user, specific directory, with
> > specific files...
> >
> > Then if you want to reconfigure all, just
> > ansible-playbook -i hosts-production site.yml
> >
> > Only site_A:
> > ansible-playbook -i hosts-production site_A.yml
> >
> > Only configure postfix on site_B:
> > ansible-playbook -i hosts-production site_B.yml --tags postfix -v
> >
> > Read:
> > http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html
> > http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_best_practices.html
> >
>
> Thanks, Tomas ... yes .... and no ... ;-)
>
> I wonder if I could also:
>
> cp defaults/main.yml to group_vars/site_[AB].yml  ...
>
> adjust the configs to the sites and then use something like:
>
> # playbook 1
>
> - hosts: site_A
>   roles:
>   - dhcpd
>
> # playbook 2
>
> - hosts: site_B
>   roles:
>   - dhcpd
>
> .... would the group_vars override the vars defined in defaults/main.yml ?
>
> I *think* so ... I will try that ...
>
> Stefan
>
>

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