I m customizing linux users creation inside my role I need to let users of my role customize home directory group name name password I was wondering if there s a more flexible way to cope with default values I know that the code below is possible - name Create default user name default name when my variable is not defined - name Create custom user name my variable when my variable is defined But as I mentioned there s a lot of optional variables and this creates a lot of possibilities Is there something like the code above user name default name my variable The code should set name default name when my variable isn t defined I could set all variables on defaults main yml and create the user like that - name Create user user name my variable But those variables are inside a really big hash and there are some hashes inside that hash that can t be a default

Ansible - Use default if a variable is not defined

You can use Jinja's default:

- name: Create user
  user:
    name: "{{ my_variable | default('default_value') }}"

~ Answered on 2016-01-30 22:06:43