Using YAML ansible-playbook -e EXTRA_VARS

[Paulo Gabriel Poiati]

Hello all,

I'm struggle with this command line option. How can I use an YAML file with the `-e` option?

`$ ansilble-playbook -e /path/to/my/var.yml playbook.yml` doesn't works.

I'm using ansible 1.8.2.

Thanks in advance.

[Matt Martz]

What specifically does "doesn't work" mean.  Can you provide any further details?  It may be beneficial to include a sample play and vars file for testing.

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[Paulo Gabriel Poiati]

Sorry Matt,

Here it is:

I'm running the command:

$ ansible-playbook -e vars.yml site.yml

############# site.yml ##############

- hosts: 'test'

  tasks:

    - command: echo {{ foo | mandatory }}

############# vars.yml ##############

---

foo: 10

############# OUTPUT ################

PLAY [test] *******************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************

ok: [testserver]

TASK: [command echo {{ foo | mandatory }}] ************************************

fatal: [testserver] => One or more undefined variables: 'foo' is undefined

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

           to retry, use: --limit @/Users/poiati/site.retry

testserver                 : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0

[J Hawkesworth]

I can't test this right now but I think you need to add @ when you want the vars to be loaded from a file:

i.e.

   $ ansilble-playbook -e "@var.yml" playbook.yml

Documentation only shows example for json, but reading the text implies it would also work with yaml.

http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html#passing-variables-on-the-command-line

[Paulo Gabriel Poiati]

This is exactly the problem, thank you so much. I think the ansible-playbook help needs some documentation improvement.

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