Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

We will begin with a standard variable file, let us call it secret.yml, in Ansible:

---mysecret: secret-value

To use this in a playbook, we can include the file as a variable and call it in a task:

---- hosts: localhost  tasks:    - name: include secret      include_vars: secret.yml    - name: get value      debug:        msg: "The value is: {{ mysecret }}"

Let us run our playbook to verify that everything is good:

$ ansible-playbook playbook.ymlPLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************TASK [setup] *******************************************************************ok: [localhost]TASK [include secret] **********************************************************ok: [localhost]TASK [get value] *************************************************************** ...