Control node environment & plugins

[Gabriel Canton]

Hi community! I have a simple, newbie question related to setting the environment for plugins. This playbook illustrates my problem:

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- name: env behaviour

  hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: no

  environment:

    MY_VAR: foo

  tasks:

    - name: shell w/environment

      shell: echo $MY_VAR

      environment:

        MY_VAR: bar

    - name: env lookup w/environment

      debug:

        msg: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'MY_VAR') }}"

      environment:

        MY_VAR: bar

As documented, although the environment keyword will work in the first task, the lookup is not aware of the env value set for MY_VAR, either at the play or task level. Now, is there any way to set the environment that will work for plugins as well? I have a lookup plugin that retrieves a token from the environment (calling os.getenv/os.environ.get), and I'd like to be able to set it at run time instead of hardcoding it in a shell variable.

Thanks,

Gabriel

[Brian Coca]

The 'environment' keyword ONLY applies to the modules, all other
lookups share the controller environment and cannot be modified
inline.

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Brian Coca

[Gabriel Canton]

Thanks for your answer Brian! So you  say there's no way? It doesn't have to be inline in the task itself. If there's some task that can modify the controller environment beforehand that's good enough...

[Brian Coca]

no such facility exists, each task runs in a fork so even if you
change the environment successfully with a action plugin, it would not
persist for the next task.

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Brian Coca

[Gabriel Canton]

I was kind of expecting something like that... It's a pity, but thanks a lot for clarifying this!

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