I'm new to ansible and wonder how to do so as the following didn't work
ansible-playbook -i '10.0.0.1,' yada-yada.yml --tags 'loaddata' django_fixtures="tile_colors"Where django_fixtures is my variable.
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Reading the docs I find the section Passing Variables On The Command Line, that gives this example:
ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo"Others examples demonstrate how to load from JSON string (≥1.2) or file (≥1.3)
Other answers state how to pass in the command line variables but not how to access them, so if you do:
--extra-vars "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo"In your yml file you assign these to scoped ansible variables by doing something like:
vars: my_version: "{{ version }}" my_other_variable: {{ other_variable }}An alternative to using command line args is to utilise environmental variables that are already defined within your session, you can reference these within your ansible yml files like this:
vars: my_version: "{{ lookup('env', 'version') }}" my_other_variable: {{ lookup('env', 'other_variable') }}ansible-playbook release.yml -e "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo"You can use the --extra-vars option. See the docs
For some reason none of the above Answers worked for me. As I need to pass several extra vars to my playbook in Ansbile 2.2.0, this is how I got it working (note the -e option before each var):
ansible-playbook site.yaml -i hostinv -e firstvar=false -e second_var=value2ansible-playbook test.yml --extra-vars "arg1=${var1} arg2=${var2}"In the yml file you can use them like this
---
arg1: "{{ var1 }}"
arg2: "{{ var2 }}"Also, --extra-vars and -e are the same, you can use one of them.
s3_sync: bucket: ansible-harshika file_root: "{{ pathoftsfiles }}" validate_certs: false mode: push key_prefix: "{{ folder }}"here the variables are being used named as 'pathoftsfiles' and 'folder'. Now the value to this variable can be given by the below command
sudo ansible-playbook multiadd.yml --extra-vars "pathoftsfiles=/opt/lampp/htdocs/video/uploads/tsfiles/$2 folder=nitesh"Note: Don't use the inverted commas while passing the values to the variable in the shell command
ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "username=hello password=bye"
#you can now use the above command anywhere in the playbook as an example below:
tasks:
- name: Create a new user in Linux
shell: useradd -m -p {{username}} {{password}}"This also worked for me if you want to use shell environment variables:
ansible-playbook -i "localhost," ldap.yaml --extra-vars="LDAP_HOST={{ lookup('env', 'LDAP_HOST') }} clustername=mycluster env=dev LDAP_USERNAME={{ lookup('env', 'LDAP_USERNAME') }} LDAP_PASSWORD={{ lookup('env', 'LDAP_PASSWORD') }}"
ansible-playbok -i <inventory> <playbook-name> -e "proc_name=sshd"
You can use the above command in below playbooks.
---
- name: Service Status
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Check Service Status (Linux)
shell: pgrep "{{ proc_name }}"
register: service_status
ignore_errors: yes
debug: var=service_status.rc`
