I am trying to customize my ansible spinnup and tried to set variables in a global file (that I do not track with version control) to overwrite admin_user, admin_password and IP of my regioncontroller.
But it does not seam to take my values.
How can a customization of Ansible variables in something like an .env file work?
Is there any other built in solution for this purpose I should check out first?
Thanks for some Advice.
Hi @novski and thank you for reaching out!
If I understand correctly, you are trying to overwrite the defaults of user/admin variables in the Ansible playbooks. I think the easiest way to overwrite some of the default variables is by passing them to the playbooks when running them, using --extra-vars. The general idea is outlined in the README, and for e.g. overwriting the default admin username admin you could do,
ansible-playbook -i ./hosts\
--extra-vars="admin_username=username maas_version=3.3 maas_postgres_password=example maas_installation_type=deb maas_url=http://example.com:5240/MAAS"\
./site.yaml
et cetera, for other default variables you want to customise.
There is also some more information on setting playbook variables here, and on precedence of configuration settings here, in the Ansible documentation.
I hope this helps a bit, and feel free to reach out if you need further help!