It is possible to create files with tasks and variables definitions to reuse in many playbooks. To use them in the playbook scripts is required to include them as the following example.
---
- name: Example of playbook with include tasks and variable files
hosts: myexample
tasks:
- name: Include the variable file
include_vars: vars/vars.yml
- name: Include the tasks
include: tasks/tasks.yml
- name: Install the firewall
yum:
name: "{{ firewall }}"
state: latest
...
--- # It is the vars/vars.yml file firewall: firewalld path: /var/www/html/
---
# It is the tasks/tasks.yml file
# All tasks defined here will be executed when it is include
- name: Create index.html
copy:
content: "here is the content\n"
dest:"{{ path }}index.html"
Following the tree of this example.
$ tree
├── ansible.cfg
├── inventory
├── myplaybook.yml
├── tasks
│ └── tasks.yml
└── vars
└── vars.yml
For further information check the Ansible documentation Load variables from files, dynamically within a task and Sets attributes of files
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