Example
We can easily separate distribution specific tasks and variables into different dedicated .yml files.
Ansible helps us to automatically identify the target hosts distribution via {{ ansible_distribution }} and {{ ansible_distribution_version }}, so we just have to name the distribution dedicated .yml files accordingly.
For Ubuntu Xenial the basic role dir tree would then look something like that:
role
├── tasks
│ ├── main.yml
│ └── Ubuntu16.04.yml
└── vars
└── Ubuntu16.04.yml
Inside the tasks/main.yml we can now automatically include the proper variables and tasks for the target hosts distribution.
tasks/main.yml
---
- name: include distribution specific vars
include_vars: "{{ ansible_distribution }}{{ ansible_distribution_version }}.yml"
- name: include distribution specific install
include: "{{ ansible_distribution }}{{ ansible_distribution_version }}.yml"
Inside tasks/Ubuntu16.06.yml and vars/Ubuntu16.04.yml we can now define tasks and variables for Ubuntu Xenial respectively.
