Project Wisdom for Red Hat Ansible

Re:Project Wisdom for Red Hat Ansible by candiddevmike on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:37AM (#33287359)

RE: variables, I'm a heathen and set `hash_behaviour = merge`. This forces nested dict values to be merged instead of overwritten (lists cannot be merged, unlike Salt...). For whatever reason Ansible encourages users to not use this [1], which makes variable usage far more difficult than it should be IMO and leads to situations like you describe where folks have various top level variables for overrides (ssh:, ssh_local:, ssh_global:, etc to check for values).

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices...

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Re:Project Wisdom for Red Hat Ansible by KAMSPioneer on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:03PM (#33289523)

Oh wow, I've been working with ansible for a few years now, how have I not seen this before? I've even searched for it, but I didn't know what it was called, so...

Do you know if this behavior can be enabled per-role, or even better, per-task?

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