{"id":1048,"date":"2024-02-23T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:55:36","slug":"ansible-adding-variables-in-inventory-and-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Ansible &#8211; Adding variables in main playbook. Or importing from a different playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variables hold values that can be used when playbooks are executed. It can be defined in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inventory file (host scope)<\/li>\n<li>Playbook (play scope)<\/li>\n<li>Defined globally (global scope)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Play scope<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the below example variables are defined in the playbook<\/p>\n<p><strong>[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> cat shijuplaybook.yml<\/p>\n<p>==== ==== ==<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; name: shiju sample playbook<br \/>\nhosts: testGRP<br \/>\nvars:<br \/>\n&#8211; theUser: shiju400<br \/>\ntasks:<br \/>\n&#8211; name: Add a user shiju100<br \/>\nansible.builtin.user:<br \/>\nname: &#8220;{{ theUser }}&#8221;<br \/>\nstate: present<\/p>\n<p>==== ==== ==<br \/>\n<strong>[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> ansible-navigator run -m stdout shijuplaybook.yml &#8211;syntax-check<br \/>\nplaybook: \/root\/shijuplaybook.yml<\/p>\n<p><strong>[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> ansible-navigator run -m stdout shijuplaybook.yml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Variables hold values that can be used when playbooks are executed. It can be defined in: Inventory file (host scope) Playbook (play scope) Defined globally <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1048\" title=\"Ansible &#8211; Adding variables in main playbook. Or importing from a different playbook\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ansible","category-devops","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}