tower_ah_url only referenced in defaults as localhost about aap_utilities HOT 5 CLOSED

I am looking into a fix, I tried changing the defaults to tower_ah_url: "https://{{ tower_ah_nodes[0] | default('localhost') }}" but it didn't seem to work. It works when I put it in my main vars but I thought you might want to avoid that. What do you think?

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The obvious solution is to just set the value of tower_ah_url in your playbook. I do, however, like the idea of setting it to be related to tower_ah_nodes, although that might not work in all circumstances (e.g. if you defined some host specific vars under tower_ah_hosts - bit of a hack but can be done).

I'm not entirely sure why your example does not work. When i put together a simple debugging playbook it does seem to:

---
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    tower_ah_nodes:
      - ahnode.example.com
  tasks:
    - debug:
        msg: "https://{{ tower_ah_nodes[0] | default('localhost') }}"

results in

TASK [debug] *************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "https://ah-node-dc1.example.com"

and setting tower_ah_nodes: [] (as per default) you get

ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "https://localhost"
}

So seemingly working?

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I might not have been clear, it does work when I have it in my vars file with everything else, it does not however work when I modified the defaults file to that instead of directly setting it to localhost. I will test again to confirm that it does not work in defaults or if it was some oversight on my part that caused it to not work when I first tried it.

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Ok I figured it out I was being stupid and modified the wrong defaults/main.yml which is why it didn't work for me. But you said you didn't like this as a full on fix?

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No, I'm happy for the default to be set as tower_ah_nodes[0]. For instances where tower_ah_nodes is set as something where this just wouldnt work, the user can just use their own value for tower_ah_url

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