Ansible Conditionals

External

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_conditionals.html

Internal

• Ansible Concepts

Overview

Tasks can be conditionally executed based on facts, registered variables or playbook or inventory variables. The conditional is introduced by the task configuration keyword when:.

The variables must not be enclosed in Template:... when used in when: expressions.

- name: Download Amazon Corretto
  get_url:
    url: https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-11-x64-macos-jdk.pkg
    dest: /tmp
  when: java_vendor == "Amazon"

- name: Install Nginx
    apt:
      pkg: nginx
      state: installed
      update_cache: true
    when: ppastable|success
    notify:
     - Start Nginx

Expressions

Undefined Variables

Undefined Variables

Do not attempt to dereference with "Template:..." until it is established the variable is defined:

- fail: msg="'some_var' is not defined"
  when: some_var is not defined

- debug: msg="'some_var' is defined"
  when: some_var is defined

Logical Operators

Parentheses can be used in expressions.

not

- name: "info"
  when: not java_updated
  debug:
    msg: "Java was NOT updated"