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Sometimes it is better to be honest with people who read my blog. As you look there is an huge title that says what article is about. Sometimes even I didn’t invent to passing variables to Ansible, I wrote like that pages.
Main reason why i wrote like that pages, there are not enough examples about topic so I spend my precious time to make the world better again.☮ 1
TLDR
All examples are at below. Copy and Paste them wisely.
Passing variable to Ansible
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ansible-playbook playbook_passing_variable -e / "my_plain_variable=ImPlain" or ansible-playbook playbook_passing_variable -e '{"my_plain_variable":"ImPlain"}' |
Passing list to Ansible
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ansible-playbook playbook_passing_variable -e '{ "my_list":[1,2,3] }' |
Passing dictionary to Ansible
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ansible-playbook playbook_passing_variable -e '{"my_plain_variable":"ImPlain","my_list":[1,2,3], "my_dictionary":{ "key1": "value1", "key2":"value2" }}' |
Pass more variables
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ansible-playbook playbook_passing_variable -e '{"my_plain_variable":"ImPlain","my_list":[1,2,3], "my_dictionary":{ "key1": "value1", "key2":"value2" }}'<code class="src src-s"> |
Example playbook
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--- - hosts: localhost gather_facts: no tasks: - name: Pass plain variable to ansible debug: msg: "{{ my_plain_variable }}" - name: Pass list to ansible debug: msg: "{{ my_list }}" - name: Pass dictionary to ansible debug: msg: "{{ my_dictionary }}" |
Output
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PLAY [localhost] TASK [Show plain] ok: [localhost] => { "msg": "ImPlain"f } TASK [Pass list to ansible] ok: [localhost] => { "msg": [ 1, 2, 3 ] } TASK [Pass dictionary to ansible] ok: [localhost] => { "msg": { "key1": "value1", "key2": "value2" } } |