Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· dstoflet

Ensure particular vars are set or bail

#ansible

Make this the 1st task... 

tasks:
    - name: Validating setup
      action: fail 
           msg="owner, group and webroot must be set!"
      with_items: [ $owner, $group, $webroot ]
      when_unset: $item
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Lorin Hochstein

This is great. What I would really like is "bail if not all of the variables used by this template are set", without having to explicitly enumerate the variables.

over 1 year ago ·

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