I have a big ansible project where I have separated my files into
playbooks, vars files, an inventory folder and roles. These files make
extensive use of jinja templates.
For my use case, I need to be able to access the variables in these files
outside ansible. So far, I have included `copy` tasks to dump the variable
I need to templated out vars files. Then, in my app I read those with the
python `yaml` module without issue since they are free of jinja templates.
The variables I am interested in are the variables in the `vars` section of
a playbook as well as those in `vars_files`. Such variables, get merged
with role defaults.
I am now trying to remove those `copy` tasks and instead use the Ansible
API to get the final value for the variables. This will also have the
benefit of fully respecting the precedence rules baked into Ansible. So
far, this is what I have come up with.
```
#!/usr/bin/env python
import code
import os
import readline
import rlcompleter
os.environ["ANSIBLE_CONFIG"] = "ansible/ansible.cfg"
import ansible.constants as C
from ansible.inventory.manager
import InventoryManager
from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
from ansible.vars.manager import VariableManager
from ansible.template import Templar
from ansible.playbook import Playbook
loader = DataLoader()
inventory = InventoryManager( loader=loader,
sources=["data/worlds/active/inventory/configs"] )
variable_manager = VariableManager(loader=loader, inventory=inventory)
p = Playbook.load( "ansible/plays/instances/main.yml", loader=loader,
variable_manager=variable_manager)
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
code.InteractiveConsole(locals=globals()).interact()
```
I don't know how to proceed. I am supposed to actually run the tasks in the
playbook to manage to get the variables? Can I somehow achieve what I want
with the Ansible API without running any task? I don't care about
`set_fact` or dynamic creation/alteration of the variables.
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