import_playbook and variables

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I have a playbook.yml that has several import_playbook statements, like this

  • import_playbook: plays/prepare.yml

  • import_playbook: plays/vpn_server.yml

  • import_playbook: plays/web_server.yml

and so on.

I want the first playbook to load some project configuration/facts//variables that should be available to all other playbooks.

I noticed however that the variable set is unique to each playbook. Unless I am doing sth wrong.

Can I somehow have this organization in my playbook.yml? Some ‘hacky’ thoughts I had about this were to “return” an all_vars hash/dict from the first playbook that then I would pass to the others. Or before all the import_playbook statements, actually have a play that will produce the variables and then pass them to the next ones. Note that the variables are a lot and passing them all one by one to each playbook would be ugly and not viable.

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This was my misunderstanding of how Ansible uses variables. The variables are not unique to each playbook as I wrote, but to each host.