Loading variables into plabook tasks failing

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Hi All,

I am having below playbooks, I intent to include variables and I have got below message as “OK” and “changed” but file not copied over.

please review and advise.

Main playbook:
cat fetchfile.yml

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I am having below playbooks, I intent to include variables and I have got
below message as "OK" and "changed" but file not copied over.

please review and advise.

Main playbook:
cat fetchfile.yml
---
   - hosts: all
     tasks:
       - name: Include vars of vars.yml into the 'dest' variable.
         include_vars:
           file: vars.yml
           name: dest
       - fetch:
           src: /tmp/xyz.txt
           dest: "{{ dest }}/"
           flat: yes

------------ variable playbook:
cat variable.yml
dest: /u01/app

<snip />

------------------ it shows above as changed but when I am checking xyz.txt
file at "dest" location, I could not see it, please advise.

You are looking at the wrong destination.
Look in the directory you run ansible-playbook, you will find a directory starting with {
If you run ansible-playbook with -vvv you'll see what I mean.

The name on the include_vars means, put the content in the file under the variable dest, so you dest is actually:
dest:
  dest: /u01/app

It you add
  - debug: var=dest
after include_vars you will also see that.

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Hi Kai,

Thank you for quick response, will try advised and update you.

Thanks,
Abdul

4

Hi Kai,

Yes, I can see the directory starting with {u’dest’: u’ and in this directory i could see xyz.txt file, exact patch is as : {u’dest’: u’/u01/app/xyz.txt

Since I wish to put this file at /u01/app ( destination folder specified in variables.yml) and my main playbook which is fetchfile.yml is not doing it, please suggest where I am doing wrong in here.

Thank you.
Abdul

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Hi Kai,

it is working for me now, I have removed name: dest .

Thank you so much for advise, have a nice day.

Thank you.
Abdul