Vars and register passing on to include playbooks

[Joe Louthan]

By all accounts that I can see, the following should work:

---

- hosts: server01

  remote_user: jlouthan

vars:

proddbhost: proddb01

  tasks:

      - name: Get current timestamp

        local_action: command bash -c 'date +%Y-%m-%d.%H%M'

        register: timestamp

        run_once: true

      - name: Get current datestamp

        local_action: command bash -c 'date +%Y-%m-%d'

        register: datestamp

        run_once: true

- include: playbook-01.yml

And within playbook-01.yml, I have:

---
- hosts: "{{ proddbhost }}"

Yet, I get:

ERROR! 'proddbhost' is undefined

Also, will the datestamp and timestamp I have registered pass on to the included playbook?

[Brian Coca]

So vars seems to be incorrectly indented, also you should not need to add 'bash' to command

The registered var should persist but it is available only through the server01 host.

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Brian Coca

[Joe Louthan]

indented var: that is a copy/paste mistake.

So those vars and register will not persist to any of the other include playbooks?

[Joe Louthan]

---

- hosts: server01

  remote_user: jlouthan

 vars:

               proddbhost: proddb01

           

 tasks:

     - name: Get current timestamp

       local_action: command bash -c 'date +%Y-%m-%d.%H%M'

       register: timestamp

       run_once: true

      - name: Get current datestamp

       local_action: command bash -c 'date +%Y-%m-%d'

       register: datestamp

       run_once: true

                             

- include: playbook-01.yml

On Friday, May 20, 2016 at 7:49:18 AM UTC-5, Brian Coca wrote:

[Brian Coca]

vars don't they are play specific, host vars (facts and registered vars) do persist, but they are associated to the specific host.

So in subsequent plays you might need to do hostvars['server01']['timestamp'] to get the var if they are not also targetting server01.

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Brian Coca

[Joe Louthan]

So in order to access this var/register from server01, I could do something like in playbook-01.yml:

---

- hosts: "{{ hostvars['server01']['proddbhost'] }}"

(When I do that I get "ERROR! 'hostvars' is undefined"

[Brian Coca]

hostvars are not accessible at the play level, but should be accessible within the play.

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Brian Coca

[Joe Louthan]

When I do this:

{{ hostvars['server1']['timestamp.stdout'] }}

as in: 

      - name: "Backup {{ proddbname }} Database"

        mysql_db: "state=dump name={{ proddbname }} target={{ homedir }}{{ proddbname }}{{ hostvars['server01']['timestamp.stdout'] }}.sql.gz"

It gives me the error

fatal: [proddbhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'dict object' has no attribute 'timestamp.stdout'"}

[Brian Coca]

you are mixing notations

{{ hostvars['server1']['timestamp']['stdout'] }}

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Brian Coca

[Joe Louthan]

DING! That worked. Thank you so much!