ansible: The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'variable' is undefined

Question

I am writing ansible playbook, and set the below variable :

default_tz: 'ZONE="America/Los_Angeles"'

I am trying to add the above variable to a file, by using the below code On the same playbook:

- name: configure time zone
  lineinfile:
   line: "{{ default_tz }}"
   dest: "/etc/sysconfig/clock"

I am getting the below error while running the playbook:

"The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'default_tz' is undefined\

How exactly have you set the variable (i.e. in a vars block, with set_fact module, some where in the inventory)? Can you post the actual code you have used to set the variable relative to the task that is called it? — clockworknet
– clockworknet, Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 15:17
Well without any further code, there is nothing obviously wrong with what you are doing. So if this is all in the same playbook, then the most likely issue is that you have more than one play in the playbook and are defining the variable in one, and calling it in another which won't work. Hard to know tho without seeing all the relevant code. — clockworknet
– clockworknet, Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 17:33

yehudkob · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-10 12:24:28Z

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You should declare variable in the scope of variables. Like this:

vars: default_tz: 'ZONE="America/Los_Angeles"'

answered Jun 10, 2019 at 12:24

yehudkob

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