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Created March 8, 2017 07:25
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Show problems when accessing vars via undocumented `vars` dict
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vars_demo.yml
---
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
var1: hello
var2: "{{ var1 }}"
var_name: var2
tasks:
- debug: msg="{{ var2 }}"
- debug: msg="{{ vars[var_name] }}"
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MeneDev commented Mar 8, 2017

For reference, this is the output:

Command: ansible-playbook -c local vars_demo.yml

PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "hello"
}

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "{{ var1 }}"
}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

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