Details
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Type: Task
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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Priority: Major
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Resolution: Done
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Labels:None
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Story Points:0.25
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Epic Link:
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Sprint:Spring 7 : 13 Apr to 24 Apr
Description
A quick question:
In a "vars" file in ansible, can you refer to another variable defined in the same file?
For example, can you do the following?
var1: hello
var2: world
var3: "{{ var1 }} var2"
That is, what I would like to do is define a variable and then use it to define additional variables elsewhere in a variables file.
For example, I would like to be able to define "ec2_name" and then re-use it to define the name of the appstore database:
ec2_name: appstore123
...
rds_db_name: "{{ ec2_name }}"
Do you know: Is this legal in ansible?
Asking because you might know the answer off-hand. I have not had much luck searching google for the answer.
If you don't know it off-hand, just add that as a comment in the ticket. No need to do a lot of deep dive research.
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Activity
Field | Original Value | New Value |
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Epic Link | IGBF-2323 [ 18477 ] |
Rank | Ranked higher |
Status | To-Do [ 10305 ] | In Progress [ 3 ] |
Status | In Progress [ 3 ] | Needs 1st Level Review [ 10005 ] |
Assignee | Chester Dias [ cdias1 ] |
Status | Needs 1st Level Review [ 10005 ] | First Level Review in Progress [ 10301 ] |
Status | First Level Review in Progress [ 10301 ] | Ready for Pull Request [ 10304 ] |
Status | Ready for Pull Request [ 10304 ] | Pull Request Submitted [ 10101 ] |
Status | Pull Request Submitted [ 10101 ] | Reviewing Pull Request [ 10303 ] |
Status | Reviewing Pull Request [ 10303 ] | Merged Needs Testing [ 10002 ] |
Status | Merged Needs Testing [ 10002 ] | Post-merge Testing In Progress [ 10003 ] |
Resolution | Done [ 10000 ] | |
Status | Post-merge Testing In Progress [ 10003 ] | Closed [ 6 ] |
Assignee | Chester Dias [ cdias1 ] |