Ansible environment Keyword: Set Environment Variables Per Task or Play — Video Tutorial

How to set remote environment per Ansible task or play? I'm going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Set remote environment per Ansible task or play - `environment` statement You could set the remote environment with the Ansible statement `environment`. The `environment` statement could be applied at the task level or play level. It's very useful to set for example proxy in a corporate environment. Links - [Setting the remote environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_environment.html) ## Playbook Set environment per Ansible Playbook task or play level. code ```yaml --- - name: remote environment Playbook hosts: all gather_facts: false environment: EXAMPLE: test1 tasks: - name: diplay EXAMPLE ansible.builtin.command: "echo $EXAMPLE" - name: diplay EXAMPLE ansible.builtin.command: "echo $EXAMPLE" environment: EXAMPLE: test2 ``` execution You need to run the playbook with the verbose option (`-v`) in order to see the standard output on the console. ```bash ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory ansible\ statements/environment-remote.yml PLAY [remote environment Playbook] ******************************************************************** TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] ***************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] ***************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************** demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory ansible\ statements/environment-remote.yml -v No config file found; using defaults PLAY [remote environment Playbook] ******************************************************************** TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] ***************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] => {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"}, "changed": true, "cmd": ["echo", "$EXAMPLE"], "delta": "0:00:00.002864", "end": "2022-02-21 09:05:33.059864", "msg": "", "rc": 0, "start": "2022-02-21 09:05:33.057000", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "test1", "stdout_lines": ["test1"]} TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] ***************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["echo", "$EXAMPLE"], "delta": "0:00:00.002800", "end": "2022-02-21 09:05:33.416884", "msg": "", "rc": 0, "start": "2022-02-21 09:05:33.414084", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "test2", "stdout_lines": ["test2"]} PLAY RECAP *******************************************************