How to create a set of different "provider" values depending on 'ansible_hostname'?

michael082 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:05:35 GMT

Hello,

I have a simple playbook adding/removing tags:

--- - name: 'Palo Alto PAN OS: Create a new tag object.' hosts: all connection: local gather_facts: true collections: - paloaltonetworks.panos pre_tasks: - name: Get the system information. include_vars: ./vars/provider.yml no_log: 'no' tasks: - name: Create a tag object. when: operation == "create" panos_tag_object: provider: '{{ provider }}' name: '{{ tag_name }}' color: '{{ tag_color }}' comments: '{{ tag_comment }}' - name: Remove a tag object. when: operation == "remove" panos_tag_object: provider: '{{ provider }}' name: '{{ tag_name }}' color: '{{ tag_color }}' state: absent

The '/vars/provider.yml' looks like this:

provider: ip_address: '2000.iaas.company.com' api_key: MY876API9787KEY

I would like to have two more 'provider' values and let the playbook to make a choice depending on the "ansible_hostname" or IP address. I can't figure it out. Can someone help? Maybe there is a better approach?

Regards,

Michael

Re: How to create a set of different "provider" values depending on 'ansible_hostname'?

gfreeman — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:50:47 GMT

You need to make a list of provider dicts, then loop over that:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#standard-loops

Re: How to create a set of different "provider" values depending on 'ansible_hostname'?

michael082 — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:59:18 GMT

Thanks. I found out It also possible to use host_vars to separate variables for different hosts.

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