Setting environment variables at the task level

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Hi,

I recently updated my ansible to version 2.19 and have been getting the following warning:

[WARNING]: Found variable using reserved name 'environment'.

The thing is that I’m actually trying to set environment variables at the task level like described in the documentation: Setting the remote environment — Ansible Community Documentation

This is a minimal playbook used for testing to reproduce the problem.

---
- name: environment test
  hosts: 1.2.3.4

  tasks:
    - name: run apt upgrade
      ansible.builtin.apt:
        update_cache: true
        upgrade: "safe"
      environment:
        ACCEPT_EULA: 'Y'

Oddly ansible doesn’t throw a warning if run against localhost. So I assume it might by python3 specific (3.12.3 on the client, 3.10.12 on the server) or I’m using it wrong?

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This playbook is not sufficient to replicate the output you received. Since the warning references a variable using a reserved name, it’s much more likely that you have a variable named environment set for this host than that Ansible is somehow misinterpreting the environment keyword.

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Argh, thank you so much, the environment variable got injected via dynamic inventory. I never though to check in that direction.