Re: [ansible-project] How can I pass variables to command module's argv parameter in Ansible?

['Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project]

#!/bin/sh ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbook-redis.yml -vv \
--extra-vars='redis_admin_user=admin redis_admin_password=mypass' \
--extra-vars='redis_cluster_members="10.226.2.194:6379 10.226.2.196:6379 
10.226.2.195:6379" redis_cluster_replicas=1'

Leave off the = and use a space for --extra_vars.


  -e EXTRA_VARS, --extra-vars EXTRA_VARS

                        set additional variables as key=value or YAML/JSON, if 
filename prepend with @

Walter
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On Feb 9, 2023, at 7:01 AM, tariver 16 <tarive...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greeting!
Asked it on 
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 but didn't get an answer, so I'm trying my luck here.

A bit condensed version:
I'm trying to write a role that creates a Redis cluster. At some point I must 
execute redis-cli binary with some parameters:

/usr/bin/redis-cli --user admin --pass mypass --cluster create 
10.226.2.194:6379 10.226.2.196:6379 10.226.2.195:6379 --cluster-replicas 1 
--cluster-yes

I pass all the required parameters as extra variables when I call the playbook 
with a shell script:

#!/bin/sh ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbook-redis.yml -vv \
--extra-vars='redis_admin_user=admin redis_admin_password=mypass' \
--extra-vars='redis_cluster_members="10.226.2.194:6379 10.226.2.196:6379 
10.226.2.195:6379" redis_cluster_replicas=1'

At first I tried the following:

- name: Create Redis cluster
  ansible.builtin.command:
    argv:
      - /usr/bin/redis-cli
      - "--user {{ redis_admin_user }}"
      - "--pass {{ redis_admin_password }}"
      - "--cluster create {{ redis_cluster_members }}"
      - "--cluster-replicas {{ redis_cluster_replicas }}"
      - --cluster-yes

And got error "Unrecognized option or bad number of args for: '--user admin'" 
which is a redis-cli error.

After some experimenting I found out that if I pass the variables in a separate 
line some of them work. So this task works and returns info about server.

- name: Get server info
  ansible.builtin.command:
    argv:
      - /usr/bin/redis-cli
      - --user
      - "{{ redis_admin_user }}"
      - --pass
      - "{{ redis_admin_password }}"
      - info

So the username and password are recognized be redis-cli, but, unfortunately 
not the "redis_cluster_members". The following task:

- name: Create Redis cluster
  ansible.builtin.command:
    argv:
      - /usr/bin/redis-cli
      - --user
      - "{{ redis_admin_user }}"
      - --pass
      - "{{ redis_admin_password }}"
      - --cluster create
      - "{{ redis_cluster_members }}"
      - --cluster-replicas
      - "{{ redis_cluster_replicas }}"
      - --cluster-yes

returns error "Unrecognized option or bad number of args for: '--cluster 
create'"

I wonder if I'm missing some syntax error or misread the documentation and 
trying to use argv not the way it's supposed to be used?

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