www/content/blog/ansible/dump-all-vars.md

title	date	description	tags
Dump all ansible variables	2019-10-15	How to dump all variables used by ansible in a task	ansible

Task to use

Here is the task to use in order to achieve that :

{{< highlight yaml >}}

• name: Dump all vars action: template src=dumpall.j2 dest=ansible.all {{< /highlight >}}

Associated template

And here is the template to use with it :

{{< highlight jinja >}} Module Variables ("vars"):

{{ vars | to_nice_json }}

Environment Variables ("environment"):

{{ environment | to_nice_json }}

GROUP NAMES Variables ("group_names"):

{{ group_names | to_nice_json }}

GROUPS Variables ("groups"):

{{ groups | to_nice_json }}

HOST Variables ("hostvars"):

{{ hostvars | to_nice_json }} {{< /highlight >}}

Output

If you are running a local task, the output will be in your playbook directory. Otherwise, it will be on the target machine(s) in a .ansible/tmp/ansible.all file under the user your are connecting the machine(s)' with.