Flummoxed with tags and environment variables

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We’re trying to incorporate some parts of the CIS tree into our ansible playbooks using include:

  • include: “/{{ansible_env.CIS_HOME)}}/CIS/playbook.yml tags=section1.1.14,section1.2.1,section1.2.2,section1.5.2,section1.6.3”

CIS_HOME is defined in the environment correctly. We had tried lookuo(‘env’,‘CIS_HOME’) previously, but that also failed. We are currently using version 1.7.2 after reading that 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 do not work with tags in the include syntax. Prior to attempting to use tags to isolate parts of the CIS template, we were running 1.5 were syntax like:

  • include $ENV(CIS_HOME)/CIS/playbook.yml

would work, but 1.5 was not working with tags in includes (though they worked from the command line.)

The include line is part of a larger playbook to initialize systems.

I am hoping there is something simple missing, but I have not found it in the manual.

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Does it work without the tags?
Have you tried putting a debug statement above the - include: line to make sure?

I had a problem with copy and paste somehow depositing a \r at the end of my string when loading it from and env variable sourced from a file (downloaded a key from AWS to my mac). The error line in the stdout from ansible-playbook didn’t show the \r but the debug did.
debug: msg=“{{ansible_env.cis_HOME}}”

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