Get parent directory in Ansible?

Question

Is there a way to evaluate a relative path in Ansible?

tasks:   - name: Run docker containers     include: tasks/dockerup.yml src_code='..' 

Essentially I am interested in passing the source code path to my task. It happens that the source code is the parent path of {{ansible_inventory}} but there doesn't seem to be anything to accomplish that out of the box.

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Project structure:

myproj   app   deploy     deploy.yml 

So I am trying to access app from deploy.yml.

Answer 1

You can use the dirname filter:

{{ inventory_dir | dirname }} 

For reference, see Managing file names and path names in the docs.