issue with setting nginx_user about ansible-consul HOT 4 OPEN

On RHEL when I include the role I do something like this:

- name: Configure instance 
  hosts: all
  roles:
   - role: ansible-consul   
      consul_is_server: true
      consul_is_ui: true
      consul_install_dnsmasq: true
      consul_install_consulate: true
      consul_datacenter: "{{ region }}"
      consul_bootstrap: false 
      consul_node_name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      consul_use_systemd: false
      consul_use_upstart: false
      consul_use_initd: true
      consul_ui_server_port: 8086
      consul_join_at_start: true
      nginx_user: nginx 

That seems to work for me.

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@jimbydamonk: it works but I still think it's an issue - we shouldn't have to know the username that nginx runs under in a playbook, and your example would fail if you had a mixed bag of RedHat and Ubuntu hosts.

@savagegus: geerlingguy's nginx role claims to support both Debian and RedHat - is it still necessary to use franklinkim's nginx role?

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I would like to understand why the franklinkim.nginx role is processed at all such that it sets the nginx_user value. Isn't the whole point of the conditional on the dependency that it only runs IF the OS family is Debian?

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Well, that didn't take me long to figure out why.

ansible/ansible#15254

Basically a conditional on a role dependency just adds a conditional to every task in that role, so it doesn't prevent vars and other things from getting set. Not really what you would think would happen. Please go to the issue and vote!

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