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Ddota
Ddota

Reputation: 163

Passing common set_facts vars to multiple playbooks

I have multiple Ansible roles each with their own playbook as seen in the structure below:

roles/
    |-- abc/
     -- def/
     -- hij/
     -- someother/
common.yml
abc.yml
def.yml
hij.yml

However, all the playbooks have the set_facts module that sets the same vars in each playbook. i.e: So, if the abc.yml playbook has the below, all the other playbooks share the exact same.

- hosts: all
  tasks:
        - set_fact:
                hostname: "user"
                randomvar: "random"

The problem is, if one vars from the set_facts needs updating, that means it needs to be done in each playbook. Is there a way to create a single playbook and pass the set_facts vars dynamically to others?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 921

Answers (1)

Oliver Gaida
Oliver Gaida

Reputation: 1930

with set_fact you set up a variable while the playbook runs. So instead of using set_fact, you can use the file group_vars\all.yml to set variables for all hosts in your inventory. all is a default group for all host.

The content of this file could be:

hostname: user
randomvar: random

from now all your playbooks can use these variables. And you have only one place to change them.

Upvotes: 2

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