ansible role, vars / default files

by JIMz

1 min read

IT ansible

overview

given a certain role, there are 2 folders to store variables, namely

  • [role root]/default
  • [role root]/vars

by default there is an empty main.yml there.

storing all vars inside either of them will get messy easily, so it gets natural to group vars by different files.

but, trying to import / include them inside main.yml won't work.

the trick to load them all

create these folders :

[role root]/default/main/
[role root]/default/vars/

and put relevant files / folder(s) of files inside accordingly.

then, every files and child folders inside will be loaded and included automatically.

the official doc is useless and says nothing on these ( or that exists but the search results are worse than useless ). this solution is found via stakeoverflow instead.