It looks relative to the playbook root, and if in roles, will look in the
"files/" dir of roles.

If you try it and it can't find something, it will tell you where it looked.




On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Dmitry Makovey <droopy4...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get through my "slow" day here - can't figure out (or locate
> documetation explaining it) - where does "lookup('file',...)" looks indeed.
>
> I have a structure:
>
> group_vars/all.yml
> pgsql_key
> pgsql_key.pub
> roles/pgsql/tasks/main.yml
> site.yml
>
> under all.yml I have var defined:
> ...
> pgsql_ssh_key="pgsql_key"
> ...
>
> inside of roles/pgsql/tasks/main.yml I have:
>
> ...
> debug: var=pgsql_ssh_key
> debug: msg={{ lookup('file',pgsql_ssh_key) }}
> ...
>
> site.yml is simple:
>
> - hosts: pgsql
>   roles:
>   - pgsql
>
> however I get empty contents of lookup call while debug for the
> pgsql_ssh_key returns proper value. Seems like lookup wants to pick up my
> pgsql_ssh_key under roles/pgsql/files, but I'd like to keep it top-level
> (other roles will be using it). What did I miss?
>
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