Ansible & Jenkins

Wanexa

10/15/23, 8:34 AM

here is my problem

I run a playbook on jenkins with extra variables, I want to test in my playbook is variables are defined

ansible [core 2.12.1] , jenkins plugin 1.1

here is the command from jenkins :

ansible-playbook create_user.yml -i hosts -e Site=UK -e BU=Test -e date_exp=

my code for testing is below

- name: Set expiration date 
  when : not date_exp
  set_fact:
   date_exp: "01/01/2024"

- name: Expiration date
  debug:
   msg:
    - "{{ date_exp}}"

tried so many things: not , is undefined , =="" nothing works

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Vladimir Botka

10/15/23, 8:50 AM

Do you want `date_exp=` to be recognized as `False`?

Wanexa

10/15/23, 8:51 AM

false or empty, whatever

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Vladimir Botka

10/15/23, 8:56 AM

Test the length of the string

  when: date_exp|length == 0

^{Example of a complete playbook for testing
shell> cat pb.yml
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- debug:
var: date_exp
- debug:
var: date_exp|type_debug
- debug:
msg: var is empty
when: date_exp|length == 0

shell> ansible-playbook pb.yml -e date_exp=

PLAY [localhost] ******************************************************************************

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] =>
date_exp: ''

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] =>
date_exp|type_debug: str

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] =>
msg: var is empty

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************
localhost: ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

shell> ansible-playbook pb.yml -e date_exp=xxx

PLAY [localhost] ******************************************************************************

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] =>
date_exp: xxx

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] =>
date_exp|type_debug: str

TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************
skipping: [localhost]

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************
localhost: ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0}

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Wanexa

10/15/23, 9:21 AM

already tried this one too, don't work

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