Variables between playbooks

[marta.a...@gmail.com]

Hi!

I have some problem and I can't figure out the answear to it. I'm relatively new to Ansible so I'm still learning. I have to separate playbooks and I want to set a variable value in one, and use it in the other. So for example in playbook 1 I want to start ec2 instance and I want to safe its instance_id and in the next playbook run some time after that first I want to delete this instance so I want to get the instance_id value from the variable. Is this possible, and if so how? If someone knows the answear please provide some simple example, because I have found some ideas, but nothing seems to work. And if the first problem could be solved, would it be possible to save this variable in the first playbook with parameterized variable name?

Marta

[Kai Stian Olstad]

It's not possible to share variables between playbooks, you can share
between play in the same playbook.

What you could do is store the values in a file that you read in
playbook number two.

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Pa S]

Well, aside from a thread on vars_files I just posted, you can use facts that seem to span imports of playbooks.  see the set_facts documentation.

You can also set variables in inventory files

[marta.a...@gmail.com]

Thanks I guess I will put it into a new file.