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I have this play.yml
--- - hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local sudo: false tasks: - include: apache.yml My Apache look like this:
vars: url: czxcxz - name: Download apache shell: wget {{url}} This is giving me error.
If I remove vars then it works. But I want to include the vars inside tasks so that I can keep different vars for different tasks separate.
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To define a variable in a playbook, simply use the keyword vars before writing your variables with indentation. To access the value of the variable, place it between the double curly braces enclosed with quotation marks. In the above playbook, the greeting variable is substituted by the value Hello world!
You can define these variables in your playbooks, in your inventory, in re-usable files or roles, or at the command line. You can also create variables during a playbook run by registering the return value or values of a task as a new variable.
To pass a value to nodes, use the --extra-vars or -e option while running the Ansible playbook, as seen below. This ensures you avoid accidental running of the playbook against hardcoded hosts.
NOTE: Using set_fact as described below sets a fact/variable onto the remote servers that the task is running against. This fact/variable will then persist across subsequent tasks for the entire duration of your playbook.
Also, these facts are immutable (for the duration of the playbook), and cannot be changed once set.
Use set_fact before your task to set facts which seem interchangeable with variables:
- name: Set Apache URL set_fact: apache_url: 'http://example.com/apache' - name: Download Apache shell: wget {{ apache_url }} See http://docs.ansible.com/set_fact_module.html for the official word.
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I know, it is long ago, but since the easiest answer was not yet posted I will do so for other user that might step by.
Just move the var inside the "name" block:
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