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Reputation: 401

Ansible: override variables

how could I override variable in following situation: playbook/roles/role1/defaults/main.yml

# Example1
myvars:
  var1: val1
  var2: val2

I'd like to override only 1 variable from this hash, something like

# Example1
myvars:
  var2: val2-new

I've added to playbook.yml following construction:

vars_files:
  - vars/local_conf_options.yml

vars/local_conf_options.yml has content from Example2 And I get error about undefined variable var1.

How I could resolve this issue?

PS: I've tried to rename 'defaults' to 'vars', but got the same error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6403

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68269

You can modify hash_behaviour to merge. The default is replace.

But be careful, this is global setting! Some other parts of your playbooks may break because of this change.

Upvotes: 4

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