Playbook cannot find out the variable which set in global vars file.

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I define the global variable in group_vars/all. But playbook cannot find out the variable. Please see the red part.

My ansible is 1.1.

/etc/ansible/hosts is:

192.168.126.149

/etc/ansible/group_vars/all is:
test: hello

my playbook is:

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​the variable is not resolved in the "name of the task"​, which is what you
see here (as you didn't set a name, the literal task entry is used as a
name)
you need to execute ansible-playbook verbosely (with the -v switch)

then you should see the value in the extra info

(I think there is an issue/PR addressing this, as to show the debug message
by default)

  Serge

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Thank you. But when I use vars file in playbook, the task debug can show variable value.

4

hey Guo,

did you put a -vv in the command line, if not try with ansible -vv or ansible-playbook -vv

5

ansible-playbook --help
There is no -w.

Then I try:
$ sudo ansible-playbook main.yml -K -k -w
[sudo] password for agilairedev:
Usage: ansible-playbook playbook.yml
ansible-playbook: error: no such option: -w

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it a double ‘v’ aka v followed by a v not a w

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Yeah, this variable is “inventory scope” and tasks are at a higher scope, it is fine if it does not show up in the name of the task, it is still usable in action lines, templates, and so on.