There is no direct feature to include vars from a role without executing
it.  However, it can be achieved if the role is created in a way that
provides a noop tasks file. If you use `import_role`, you can specify
`tasks_from` to tell it to use tasks from that  noop file.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:04 AM Paul Manno <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A bit of background... I manage multiple applications. Each application
> has an ansible role defined for it. Sometimes, there is a playbook that is
> common to each application, but I would prefer to keep this playbook out of
> the ansible role and instead use the playbook from the parent project (to
> reduce code duplication); however, I do still need all the vars that are
> specific to the role in the playbook. Is there a way to load a role, but
> not have it execute at all? Just so I can reference the role variables? I
> tried including_vars from roles/<role_name/defaults/main.yml but that does
> not seem to work. I did get it working by importing the role (my main.yml
> is a noop unless some flags are set) and that does work, but I'd prefer it
> if the role did not execute at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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