Although Ansible has a low learning curve, obviously there’s always a big difference between learning on your own versus working on a medium to large scale size (enterprise) projects. Today’s post will be related to a common error in Ansible known as AnsibleUndefinedVariable.
Prerequisites
- Ansible
Solution(s)
The error is pretty much self-explanatory, so you might need to check if this specific variable or multiple vars are loaded by any of vars, include_vars, or vars_file. It also depends on the approach on how you organize hosts and group variables. For best practices Organizing host and group variables.
A few common examples on how to include vars:
Example 1. Load variables using vars_file from file (works on playbook level only).
---
- hosts: host_group_1
vars_files:
- some_vars_file.yml
roles:
- role: role_1
...
Example 2. Load variables using include_vars on a task level.
---
- hosts: host_group_1
tasks:
- name: task 1
include_vars: some_vars_file.yml
...
Example 3. You could also do a combination.
---
- hosts: host_group_2
vars:
ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
vars_files:
- some_vars_file.yml
roles:
- role: role_2
Note(s): Obviously, there’s a difference between vars_file and include_vars which will be described more into details in one of the following posts.
Conclusion
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