How to retrieve arguments to ansible-playbook from ansible?

[Dick Visser]

Hi

As part of our deployment we are saving a file
/etc/deployment_status.json onto remote nodes:

vars:
deployment_status:
version: "{{ our_version }}"
date: "{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}"
deployer: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}"
ansible: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'ansible --version') }}"

pre_tasks:
- name: Write deployment status to /etc/deployment_status.json
copy:
content: "{{ deployment_status | to_nice_json }}"
dest: /etc/deployment_status.json
tags: always,deployment_status


This has proven to be helpful.
Now I would like to also include information about how
ansible-playbook was invoked, for instance which tags were used, or
what hosts the deployment was limited to.
Is there any way of knowing what arguments ansible-playbook was run
with, from within ansible?


thx!

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Dick Visser
Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
GÉANT

[Nuno Jordão]

Hello,

Is this what you are looking for?

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/special_variables.html 

Nuno Jordão 

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[Dick Visser]

Yes, that goes a long way.
But I realized we call ansible-playbook from a shell wrapper, so I
used "${@}" in there instead.

thx!

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