[ansible-project] Re: extra-vars behavior

I started reading the code and I agree it is a feature. I would recommend looking at this file to see how the playbook treats each option. Very informative: ansible/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py if runtask_opts: parser.add_option('-e', '--extra-vars', dest="extra_vars",

[ansible-project] Re: extra-vars behavior

I've used multiple vars similar to your second example for quite a while, and it's documented to be used like that , so I believe it is a feature, not a bug. I'm not sure I have ever used quotes