using host_vars and variables

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I am trying to use the following configuration in hosts.yml

all:
hosts:
177.177.188.199:
177.177.188.200:
vars:

ansible_connection= {{ ansible_conn }}
ansible_user= {{ ansible_usr }}
ansible_ssh_common_args= {{ common_args }}

and I am having two problems:

  1. No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
    [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost
    does not match ‘all’

Which is weird because in the playbook I used all

It does work when I used INI

[all]
177.177.188.199 ansible_connection=“{{ ansible_conn }}” ansible_user=“{{ ansible_usr }}” ansible_ssh_common_args=“{{ common_args }}”

  1. When I use the variables in INI common_args is not found. I declared these in host_vars

ansible_conn: ssh
ansible_usr: user
common_args: ‘-o ProxyCommand=“ssh -W %h:%p -q user@vpn”’

And it cannot solve the common_args I wrote them with ’ and with "

Does anyone understand how to make the host.yml? and why the proxy declared in variables doesnt work

Thanks
Jacque

2

Fix the syntax.

  all:
    hosts:
      177.177.188.199:
      177.177.188.200:
    vars:
      ansible_connection: "{{ ansible_conn }}"
      ansible_user: "{{ ansible_usr }}"
      ansible_ssh_common_args: "{{ common_args }}"