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MMA
MMA

Reputation: 458

Ansible - multiple roles

I am trying to run multiple roles using with_items command, however I am getting error:

"ERROR! 'item' is undefined"

role.yml:

---
- hosts: '{{ host }}'
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: "{{item}}"
      with_items: "{{ roles }}"

Here is my command:

ansible-playbook -i ./inventory/Dev ./playbooks/role.yml --extra-vars='{"host": "db", "roles": ["mysql", "apache"]}'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 24378

Answers (2)

Paul92
Paul92

Reputation: 137

You cannot use with_ loop with roles directive. A simple solution would be to use normal yaml list like below:

---
- hosts: '{{ host }}'
  become: yes

  roles:
    - myrole1
    - myrole2

Another example where you could declare the roles as well as pass corresponding variables to the role would be like below:

---
- hosts: '{{ host }}'
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: 
      name: myrole1
      vars:
        host: "db1"
        myroles: 
         - mysql1
         - apache1

    - role: 
      name: myrole2
      vars:
        host: "db2"
        myroles: 
         - mysql2
         - apache2

Also avoid using ansible keywords as your variable names Finally your command to run your playbook will be as below:

ansible-playbook -i ./inventory/Dev ./playbooks/role.yml

Upvotes: 1

techraf
techraf

Reputation: 68439

You cannot do it this way. with_ loops are not valid for roles.

If anything, you need to provide a list of roles to the roles: directive, so the syntax would be just like for the list of host groups hosts: '{{ host }}'. The problem is: Ansible does not resolve the variable for roles, so roles: '{{ roles }}' does not work.

What you can do, however, is to use include_role module in which you can access the variables.

No, include_role module doesn't take {{ item }} from the with_items as a value for name either.

So the only workaround I can think of (assuming you don't want to process the JSON beforehand) is to the include the roles statically:

tasks:
  - include_role:
      name: "mysql"
    when: "'mysql' in roles"
  - include_role:
      name: "apache"
    when: "'apache' in roles"

The roles need to exist on the control machine anyway, so all their names are predefined.

Upvotes: 2

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