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gitaarik
gitaarik

Reputation: 46370

Multiple tasks with same sudo_user in Ansible role?

I have a bunch of tasks in a role that repeatedly use:

sudo: yes
sudo_user: my_user

Isn't there a way that I can set these attributes for multiple tasks, so it will be more DRY?

I know I can change the user in the playbook, but other tasks need user root, so I can't change that.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 335

Answers (1)

Kevin Willock
Kevin Willock

Reputation: 1958

In your inventory file you can have multiple groups, ie: root_access group or deploy_user group. So you define your hosts, say like this;

[web]
webby-1 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.1
webby-2 ansible_ssh_host=ec2-192-168-1-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com

[foo:children]
web

[foo:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=foo
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/foo.pem

[bar:children]
web

[bar:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=bar
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/bar.pem

and then you can call them based on the inventory groups.

Upvotes: 1

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