How to display the Current ansible-playbook Path?
I’m going to show you how to Use the “playbook_dir” Ansible Magic Variable in Ansible Playbook with a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Ansible Magic Variables
- playbook_dir
The path to the directory of the playbook that was passed to the ansible-playbook command line How to Ansible Magic Variables in Ansible Playbook. The good news is that Ansible provides some internal variables that come out of the box with some information such as running the Ansible version, inventory details, or execution options.
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Use “playbook_dir” Ansible Magic Variable in Ansible Playbook How to display the Current ansible-playbook Path? I’m going to show you how to user the “playbook_dir” Ansible Magic Variable in Ansible Playbook. Let’s see in action some of the most common Ansible Magic Variables in an Ansible Playbook.
code
---
- name: playbook directory Playbook
hosts: all
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: print current playbook directory
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: playbook_dir
execution
ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory file_management/file_playbookdir.yml
PLAY [playbook directory Playbook] ********************************************************************
TASK [print current playbook directory] ***********************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com] => {
"playbook_dir": "/Users/lberton/prj/github/ansible-pilot/file_management"
}
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
demo.example.com : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
ansible-pilot $
idempotency
ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory file_management/file_playbookdir.yml
PLAY [playbook directory Playbook] ********************************************************************
TASK [print current playbook directory] ***********************************************************
ok: [demo.example.com] => {
"playbook_dir": "/Users/lberton/prj/github/ansible-pilot/file_management"
}
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
demo.example.com : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
ansible-pilot $
before execution
$ pwd
/Users/lberton/prj/github/ansible-pilot
after execution
$ pwd
/Users/lberton/prj/github/ansible-pilot
Conclusion
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