Ansible Variable above hosts
hello its posible to create a variable for multi hosts like this?
vars: some_vars: "./Prometheus/roles/" # <---- THIS Variable? - hosts: lxd1 vars_files: - Prometheus/vars/grafana_vars.yml become: true roles: - '{{ some_vars }}Stouts.grafana' <--- var usage - hosts: lxd1 vars_files: - Prometheus/vars/exporters_common_vars.yml become: true roles: - './Prometheus/roles/ansible-prometheus-exporters-common' No that is not valid syntax in a playbook. There is no way within a playbook to include vars that will apply for all plays.
If you want variables applied to multiple plays, and so multiple hosts hosts define them in your inventory or group_vars.
You could also pass variables from the command line, if you need variables to apply to many plays using the -e option.
As mention in @Zoredache post I would use group_vars in order to define a group to apply vars to all host.
In order to do that I would use a following inventory file :
[dev-servers] # inventory for dev servers dev1.example.com dev2.example.com [production-servers] # inventory for production servers prod1.example.com prod2.example.com [allvars:children] # group vars to apply for all hosts dev-servers production-servers [productionvars:children] # group vars to apply for only production production-servers [devvars:children] # group vars to apply for only dev dev-servers Then you will have to create a dedicate group_vars file for allvars group, please find here an example of directory layout :
inventory_host # inventory file group_vars/ allvars.yml # here we assign variables to all hosts productionvars.yml # here we assign variables to only prod hosts devvars.yml # here we assign variables to only dev hosts 