# Importing a yaml file in ansible-playbook.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/importing-a-yaml-file-in-ansible-playbook/30987>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/importing-a-yaml-file-in-ansible-playbook/30987 "2019-08-08T07:19:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![PranavBarve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PranavBarve](https://forum.ansible.com/u/PranavBarve)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/importing-a-yaml-file-in-ansible-playbook/30987/1 "2019-08-08T07:19:27Z")

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I am running ansilbe-playbooks using the ansible-runner in python.

I have a configuration yaml file. I want my playbooks to import that configuration file in order to use the variables from that file.

I am using jinja2 templating to use the variables for that ayaml files.

Is there any way I can do this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/importing-a-yaml-file-in-ansible-playbook/30987/2 "2019-08-08T16:09:19Z")

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the file lookup [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup/file.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup/file.html)