Hi,
After some googling and asking on IRC, there doesn't seem to be a global defaults variable file where you can set things like accelerate and gather_facts.
group_vars/all doesn't seem to work for variables at this level.
This means that for a big playbook with many plays you have to explicitly set them for each play, this is probably suboptimal ?
renaudguerin
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Hi,
(A) These are set on a play by play basis.
(B) In the future, please don't use github as a support forum. Stop by ansible-project on googlegroups instead.
Thanks!
mpdehaan
on 29 Nov 2013
Hi Michael,
This is actually a feature (or at least documentation update) request, not a support one.
The question seems recurrent and the answer given is usually "group_vars/all", but this doesn't work for all scopes and certainly not for the variables I mentioned.
[all:vars] in the inventory looks like the next best answer, but when you have a few different inventory files you don't really want to be duplicating these values in all of them.
So, I feel that something similar to defaults/ in roles, at the playbook level, is missing.
renaudguerin
on 29 Nov 2013
+1, can't find a place to define global defaults
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Hi Michael,
This is actually a feature (or at least documentation update) request, not a support one.
The question seems recurrent and the answer given is usually "group_vars/all", but this doesn't work for all scopes and certainly not for the variables I mentioned.
[all:vars] in the inventory looks like the next best answer, but when you have a few different inventory files you don't really want to be duplicating these values in all of them.
So, I feel that something similar to defaults/ in roles, at the playbook level, is missing.