Allow usage of Ansible module group defaults - for Ansible 2.12+

[zeten30]

SUMMARY

Allow usage of Ansible module group defaults

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_module_defaults.html

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Allows usage of module defaults like:

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  collections:
    - netapp.ontap
  module_defaults:
    group/netapp.ontap.netapp_ontap:
      hostname: "my.filer"
      https: "true"
      password: "{{ secrets.pwd }}"
      use_rest: "true"
      username: "{{ secrets.user }}"
      validate_certs: "false"

  tasks:
    - na_ontap_info:
        gather_subset: "net_interface_info"
        query:
          net-interface-info:
            vserver: "vserver-nfs"
            data-protocols:
              data-protocol: "nfs"
      register: ontap_volume_nfs_interface

    - debug:
        msg: "{{ ontap_volume_nfs_interface.ontap_info.net_interface_info }}"

[lonico]

@zeten30 This is very cool. Would you know which minimum version of Ansible is required to make this work?
I see it on devel.

[zeten30]

@zeten30 This is very cool. Would you know which minimum version of Ansible is required to make this work?
I see it on devel.

@lonico it should technically work on 2.10+, but works only on devel/future 2.12 for me (same as for you). I'll try to figure it out.
Module groups were 'hardcoded' in ansible core before, but they allowed this new collection level definitions recently.

[zeten30]

@tremble do you know what is the lowest version of Ansible that is capable of handling collection definition of module group defaults? Thanks in advance.

[lonico]

I'll hold off on this until it's supported on a released version of Ansible in pypi.

[tremble]

Looks like custom groups for collections is a 2.12 feature: ansible/ansible#74039

It looks like it works for AWS because they had some hard-coded magic for existing groups.

Currently slated for November: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_12.html

[zeten30]

TYVM @tremble

@lonico yes, let's wait for 2.12 release :)