Ansible syntax check for undefined variable

Question

I have a playbook like : myplaybook.yml

---
- name: call another playbook
  hosts: 127.0.0.1

- include: "{{name}}-playbook.yml"
  when: name is defined

Here I am passing the 'name' variable from cli as --extra-vars

It is working fine. But while trying to check the syntax with below command its giving error saying name is undefined

Ansible-playbook --syntax myplaybook.yml

Any ideas on how to handle it ?

Why not pass the name for the syntax check also with --extra-vars? — Inian
– Inian, Commented Dec 5, 2017 at 11:54
Actually I can't do it. The syntax check is doing by other system where I have no control. Any workaround ? — Shibankar
– Shibankar, Commented Dec 5, 2017 at 11:58

Konstantin Suvorov · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-05 12:35:53Z

3

What syntax do you want to check? If you have many playbooks like name1-playbook.yml and name2-playbook.yml, how is Ansible supposed to guess all the names and test all of them?

If you want to test just one of them, make default value for name, like:

- include: "{{ name | default('name1') }}-playbook.yml"

answered Dec 5, 2017 at 12:35

Konstantin Suvorov

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