passing vars: to included tasks/files

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Is there a way (or would a patch be welcomed??) to allow cleanly supplying variables to included tasks/playbooks/etc. similar to with_items? E.g.

tasks:

  • include: $task_dir/leiningen-install.yml
  • include: $task_dir/push-ansible.yml
    vars:
    push_ansible_version: devel
    push_ansible_dir: ~/src/ansible-devel

– VS. –

tasks:

  • include: $task_dir/leiningen-install.yml
  • include: $task_dir/push-ansible.yml push_ansible_version=devel push_ansible_dir=~/src/ansible-devel

Also; it seems that variables are not shared when passing playbooks (I load a lot of common variables via a vars_file, and then include playbooks where I need to re-include the vars_file). Is this a possibility?

Thanks,

~ Brice

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Pretty sure Daniel already made that work, at least for playbook
includes, at one point.

He'll have to remind me :slight_smile:

3

Michael DeHaan wrote:

Pretty sure Daniel already made that work, at least for playbook
includes, at one point.

He'll have to remind me :slight_smile:

Yep, vars: works on both task includes and playbook includes. Probably needs
to get documented though...

Is there a way (or would a patch be welcomed??) to allow cleanly
supplying
variables to included tasks/playbooks/etc. similar to with_items? E.g.

  tasks:

  - include: $task_dir/leiningen-install.yml
  - include: $task_dir/push-ansible.yml
    vars:
      push_ansible_version: devel
      push_ansible_dir: ~/src/ansible-devel

-- VS. --

  tasks:

  - include: $task_dir/leiningen-install.yml
  - include: $task_dir/push-ansible.yml push_ansible_version=devel
push_ansible_dir=~/src/ansible-devel

Also; it seems that variables are not shared when passing playbooks (I
load
a lot of common variables via a vars_file, and then include playbooks
where
I need to re-include the vars_file). Is this a possibility?

No, vars are per play, and there are no global vars. If you aren't using any
of the vars_files specialities, you could likely just use group_vars/all to
contain your variables, and completely avoid using vars_files.

Daniel

4

+1

This would be very useful!