Playbook -- How to read a value from another yaml file ?

[Darup tek]

I have this playbook which changes the xml file on a remote server.

This playbook needs to read a value from another yaml file.

For example source yaml file:

main.yml

cluster: onecluster

product: someproduct

....

playbook.yml

-replace: dest=/a/b/cd.xml regexp=something replace=<<< value of cluster from main.yml >>>

The  playbook.yml changes the  value as per the value from main.yml.

I cannot not hardcode that in the playbook.yml, all the values should come from central place(main.yml)

Thank you in advance.

[Henry Finucane]

I'm not 100% sure if I understand the question, but your inventory can
associate extra yaml files with all hosts or with groups of hosts. The
documentation is fairly reasonable:
http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html (group_vars are what you
want, and are discussed at the end)

As an aside, the Ansible convention for global defaults is the "all" group.

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[Darup tek]

Thanks, I solved the problem by using extra-vars.

[Michael DeHaan]

vars_files:

   - /path/to/foo.yaml

Would be the most idiomatic way to read a YAML file in a playbook.

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[Darup tek]

That makes sense , I can populate the yaml before executing the playbook.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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