Mastering Ansible

Chapter 1
Relative path assumptions
When Ansible parses a playbook, there are certain assumptions that can be made
about the relative paths of items referenced by the statements in a playbook. In most
cases, paths for things such as variable files to include, task files to include, playbook
files to include, files to copy, templates to render, scripts to execute, and so on, are all
relative to the directory where the file referencing them lives. Let's explore this with
an example playbook and directory listing to show where the things are.
• Directory structure:
.
├── a_vars_file.yaml
├── mastery-hosts
├── relative.yaml
└── tasks
├── a.yaml
└── b.yaml
• Contents of _vars_file.yaml:
---
something: "better than nothing"
• Contents of relative.yaml:
---
- name: relative path play
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
vars_files:
- a_vars_file.yaml
tasks:
- name: who am I
debug:
msg: "I am mastery task"
- name: var from file
debug: var=something
- include: tasks/a.yaml
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