Ansible How to read and manipulate settings based on an acronym - ansible

Question

What strategy you use to control custom settings? Using ini files or save files in yaml format ?!
For example I have settings for acronym of my establishment.
How do I access from my playbook these variables or custom data?
I want to read the settings conditionally. Based on the referenced acronym.
Like that:
ansible-playbook -i hosts myplaybooy.yml my_acronym
Example structure where CAX, BAC and SIN are acronyms:
CAX
IP_SERVER = 200.253.167.1
IP_DB_MASTER = 200.253.167.20
IP_DB_SLAVE = 200.253.167.21
IP_MIRROR = 200.253.167.13
BAC
IP_SERVER = 200.253.168.1
IP_DB_MASTER = 200.253.168.20
IP_DB_SLAVE = 200.253.168.21
IP_MIRROR = 200.253.168.13
SIN
IP_SERVER = 200.253.169.1
IP_DB_MASTER = 200.253.169.20
IP_DB_SLAVE = 200.253.169.21
IP_MIRROR = 200.253.169.13
The reason for this change is to adapt my playbook for the ansible-pull. In ansible-pull conditional tests like these not work.
- name: Download pub key acesso
fetch:
src=~acesso/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
dest="{{role_path}}/../appserver/files/pub_keys/appservers/csa{{groupvar.server.acronym}}am/acesso.pub" flat=yes
sudo: yes
delegate_to: "{{hostvars['csa'+groupvar.server.acronym+'am'].ansible_ssh_host}}"
when: inventory_hostname in groups['pdv'+groupvar.server.acronym]
run_once: True
ignore_errors: yes
I think this is due to the fact that ansible-pull look at inventory subsets.

Answer 1

I think this will work for you. If you can post more from the playbook you're using, I can help you make this work for the actual tasks you're running.
This is the command-line syntax I used:
ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml --extra-vars "ACRONYM=SIN"
playbook.yml:
---
- name: show vars
hosts: localhost
vars_files:
- var_file.yml
tasks:
- debug:
msg: IP_SERVER = {{Acronyms[ACRONYM].IP_SERVER}}
- debug:
msg: IP_DB_MASTER = {{Acronyms[ACRONYM].IP_DB_MASTER}}
- debug:
msg: IP_DB_SLAVE = {{Acronyms[ACRONYM].IP_DB_SLAVE}}
- debug:
msg: IP_MIRROR = {{Acronyms[ACRONYM].IP_MIRROR}}
var_file.yml:
Acronyms: {
CAX:
{ IP_SERVER: 200.253.167.1,
IP_DB_MASTER: 200.253.167.20,
IP_DB_SLAVE: 200.253.167.21,
IP_MIRROR: 200.253.167.13
},
BAC:
{ IP_SERVER: 200.253.168.1,
IP_DB_MASTER: 200.253.168.20,
IP_DB_SLAVE: 200.253.168.21,
IP_MIRROR: 200.253.168.13
},
SIN:
{ IP_SERVER: 200.253.169.1,
IP_DB_MASTER: 200.253.169.20,
IP_DB_SLAVE: 200.253.169.21,
IP_MIRROR: 200.253.169.13
}
}
This is my terminal output:
PLAY [show vars] ***************************************************************
TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "IP_SERVER = 200.253.169.1"
}
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "IP_DB_MASTER = 200.253.169.20"
}
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "IP_DB_SLAVE = 200.253.169.21"
}
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "IP_MIRROR = 200.253.169.13"
}
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=5 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0