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Rafael Oliveira
Rafael Oliveira

Reputation: 369

How to skip task when condition is not satisfied

Have a role with the following task that is supposed to create a cron job if my_environment var is "prod".

I would like the playbook to skip this task rather than failing, when the condition is not satisfied:

---
- name: Configure cron job to export patch logs
  cron:
    name: export patch logs daily
    minute: 0
    hour: 0
    user: root
    cron_file: patch_logs
    job: "/usr/local/bin/aws s3 cp /var/log/dpkg.log s3://{{ patch_logs_bucket }}/dpkg.log.$(hostname).$(date +\\%F)"
  when: my_environment == "prod"

Failure message:

TASK [ansible-contxt-base : Configure cron job to export patch logs] ***********
    fatal: [ubuntu-1604]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'scx_environment == \"prod\"' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (scx_environment == \"prod\"): 'my_environment' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/**<path>**/tasks/base.yml': line 125, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: Configure cron job to export patch logs\n  ^ here\n"}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2448

Answers (3)

Oliver Gaida
Oliver Gaida

Reputation: 1920

found here https://ansible-docs.readthedocs.io/zh/stable-2.0/rst/playbooks_conditionals.html#the-when-statement

- shell: echo "This certainly isn't epic!"
  when: not epic

or

- fail: msg="Bailing out. this play requires 'bar'"
  when: bar is undefined

Upvotes: 0

Rafael Oliveira
Rafael Oliveira

Reputation: 369

We can use the jinja2 shortcut for 'default(False) ’: 'd(False)’.

when: my_environment|d(False) == "prod"

Upvotes: 2

Rafael Oliveira
Rafael Oliveira

Reputation: 369

when:

my_environment is defined

my_environment != ”prod”

Upvotes: 0

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