Passing environment variable set in group_vars to lookup pluging

[Samnang Sen]

I export ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL in order for the Consul lookup pluging to search against a remote server. I'm not able to set this environment variable within my playbook. It still defaults to localhost. Is it not possible?

# group_vars/all

consul_url_env:

   ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL: http://MY_REMOTE_IP:8500

tasks:

    - name: Grab environment info from aria.conf and set a variable

      set_fact: environment_id="sf"

    - name: Build list of modules and its associated tag

      set_fact: deploy_list="{{ item | replace("deploys/" + environment_id  + "/",'') }}-{{ lookup('consul_kv','deploys/' + environment_id + '/' + item) }}"

      with_items: "{{ modules }}"

      environment: "{{ consul_url_env }}"

      register: deploy_list_result