How do I get an ENV variable and store it into a local variable - Ansible

Question

Hey, This probably might be stupid but I'm just a beginner and need some help.

I'm trying to get the ENV variables and store them in a local variable and further use that variable in my playbook. Is that possible?

Answer 1

Hey @Ninja, that is possible. What you could do is, use the lookup plugin to get the environment variables and assign this output to a variable, So now you can use this variable at other places in your playbook. 

- hosts: all
  vars:
    local_shell:  "{{ lookup('env','SHELL') }}"
  tasks:
    - debug:
        msg: "{{ local_shell }}"

output
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"msg": "/bin/sh"