Import ansible variables to foreman

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Problem:
Hello
I imported ansible roles in foreman but cant import ansible variables (no errormessage).
Where foreman/foreman-proxy search for ansible variables?

My roles looks like:
   rolepath/roles/apache
                         - doku
                         - handlers
                         - meta
                         - tasks
                         - templates
                         - vars

and in folder vars i defined a lot off variables for example:

rolepath/roles/apache/vars/debian.yml
package_list: ['apache2', 'w3m']
httpd_conf_dir: '/etc/apache2/conf-available'

Expected outcome:
Import ansible roles correctly.

Foreman and Proxy versions:
foreman 1.21.0~rc5-1
foreman-proxy 1.21.0~rc5-1

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
ruby-foreman-ansible 2.3.1-1
ruby-smart-proxy-ansible 2.1.0-1

Any Idea?
mobios

2

Hi,
proxy searches the defaults dir in your roles. Role vars have very high priority and are difficult to override, is there a specific reason why you are using them?

When you do:
mv rolepath/roles/apache/vars/debian.yml rolepath/roles/apache/defaults/debian.yml
proxy should find the variables from debian.yml.

3

Hello Ondrej,
thanks for your help. We will move the variables to the right place.

Best regards
mobios

4

How do you load defaults from multiple files? Since ansible only loads main.yml AFAIK.

5

You can have role-path/defaults/main/{debian,ubuntu}.yml and Ansible will find them (tested on Ansible 2.7.8).

The role-path/defaults/debian.yml is ignored by Ansible, but proxy will import defaults from there as well, we are globbing the whole defaults dir. This might need a change to have the same behavior as Ansible.

6

Hello Ondrej,

Thank you for your help. But the problem still exists.
The VariableExtractor Class
--> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/smart_proxy_ansible/variables_extractor.rb <--

searches for {{ }} in variables files. But as you can see in ansible documentation
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#defining-variables-in-files

The contents of each variables file is a simple YAML dictionary, like this:
---
# in the above example, this would be vars/external_vars.yml
somevar: somevalue
password: magic

variable files look different to playbook files. Therfore the VariableExtractor violates
the ansible specs.

Can you check please.

7

The 2.1.0 version of smart_proxy_ansible had that, it is fixed in 2.1.1. Could you try to update if it resolves the issue for you?

8

Thanks for your help. I see the new version looks good but cant currently install. I included the foreman repos and with apt install i dont get the new version. Maybe i have to wait.

Best regards
mobios