How can I pass variable to ansible playbook in the command line

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I m new to ansible and wonder how to do so as the following didn t work  ansible-playbook -i  10 0 0 1   yada-yada yml --tags  loaddata  django fixtures  tile colors    Where django fixtures is my variable

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Other answers state how to pass in the command line variables but not how to access them, so if you do:

--extra-vars "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo"

In your yml file you assign these to scoped ansible variables by doing something like:

vars:
    my_version: "{{ version }}"
    my_other_variable: {{ other_variable }}

An alternative to using command line args is to utilise environmental variables that are already defined within your session, you can reference these within your ansible yml files like this:

vars:
    my_version: "{{ lookup('env', 'version') }}"
    my_other_variable: {{ lookup('env', 'other_variable') }}

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ansible-playbook test yml --extra-vars  arg1   var1  arg2   var2     In the yml file you can use them like this  --- arg1      var1     arg2      var2        Also  --extra-vars and -e are the same  you can use one of them

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s3 sync        bucket  ansible-harshika       file root      pathoftsfiles            validate certs  false        mode  push       key prefix      folder       here the variables are being used named as  pathoftsfiles  and  folder   Now the value to this variable can be given by the below command   sudo ansible-playbook multiadd yml --extra-vars  pathoftsfiles  opt lampp htdocs video uploads tsfiles  2 folder nitesh    Note  Don t use the inverted commas while passing the values to the variable in the shell command

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Reading the docs I find the section Passing Variables On The Command Line  that gives this example  ansible-playbook release yml --extra-vars  quot version 1 23 45 other variable foo quot   Others examples demonstrate how to load from JSON string   1 2  or file   1 3

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ansible-playbook release yml --extra-vars  username hello password bye    you can now use the above command anywhere in the playbook as an example below  tasks  - name  Create a new user in Linux shell  useradd -m -p   username     password

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This also worked for me if you want to use shell environment variables   ansible-playbook -i  localhost   ldap yaml --extra-vars  LDAP HOST    lookup  env    LDAP HOST      clustername mycluster env dev LDAP USERNAME    lookup  env    LDAP USERNAME      LDAP PASSWORD    lookup  env    LDAP PASSWORD

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For some reason none of the above Answers worked for me  As I need to pass several extra vars to my playbook in Ansbile 2 2 0  this is how I got it working  note the -e option before each var    ansible-playbook site yaml -i hostinv -e firstvar false -e second var value2

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ansible-playbook release yml -e  version 1 23 45 other variable foo

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You can use the --extra-vars option   See the docs

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ansible-playbok -i  lt inventory gt   lt playbook-name gt  -e  proc name sshd   You can use the above command in below playbooks    --- - name  Service Status gather facts  False tasks  - name  Check Service Status  Linux  shell  pgrep     proc name     register  service status ignore errors  yes debug  var service status rc

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