Ansible Error ERROR vars files is not a valid attribute for a PlaybookInclude

Question

I am trying to execute my playbook

ansible-playbook openshift-ansible/playbooks/example/config.yml

And I end up with the following error:

ERROR! 'vars_files' is not a valid attribute for a PlaybookInclude

Why is that so?

Answer 1

vars_files is not supported for included playbooks as of Ansible 2.3

You may opt to use extra variables file:

ansible-playbook -e @secrets/example.com.yml env_demo.yml

Or use group variables file for all group – place your encrypted file into ./group_vars/all/example.com.yml.