creating git-identiy-example for xserver

playbooks/group_vars/all

 ---
 # these pathes are relative to the playbook dir
 # directory for secret settings (keys, etc)
+#
+
 secure_dir: 'path/to/secure_example'
 
 # this indicates the path to site-specific (with precedence)

playbooks/roles/nginx/defaults/main.yml

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ nginx_cfg:
     edx_release: link
   # path to version files for the basic
   # nginx configuration
-  version_html: $app_dir/versions.html
-  version_json: $app_dir/versions.json
+  version_html: "{{ nginx_app_dir }}/versions.html"
+  version_json: "{{ nginx_app_dir }}/versions.json"
   # default htpasswd contents set to edx/edx
   # this value can be overiden in vars/secure/<group>.yml
   htpasswd: |

playbooks/roles/xserver/files/git-identity-example

+example identity file

playbooks/roles/xserver/tasks/deploy.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@
   - deploy
 
 - name: xserver | install read-only ssh key for the content repo that is required for grading
-  copy: src={{ xserver_git_identity_path }} dest=/etc/git-identity force=yes owner=ubuntu group=adm mode=60
+  copy: src={{ item }} dest=/etc/git-identity force=yes owner=ubuntu group=adm mode=60
+  first_available_file:
+    - "{{ secure_dir }}/files/git-identity"
+    - "git-identity-example"
   tags:
   - deploy