Ensuring a setting in ansible.cfg

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I’ve structured one of my roles to rely upon the “merge” setting of “hash_behaviour”. If I want let my colleagues use this role, then they too must set this in their ansible.cfg file, or the environment variable ANSIBLE_HASH_BEHAVIOUR.

Is there any way to have a check in a playbook that will make the play fail if this setting isn’t set correctly?

Anand

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You can use lookup('env' ..) to check for the variable, but currently
there is no way to dynamically check for a setting.

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Thanks Brian! I’ve combined the lookup with “assert” and it works perfectly. The play fails if the environment variable isn’t set, or is set to the wrong value.

Regards,
Anand