Agfdhyk

I have a follow up question to the thread in here:
How do I pass username and password while using Ansible Git module?

I am trying to achieve a similar task where I am passing a username and password to GitHub through Ansible. Here is what I am using for my playbook:

- name: ANSIBLE - Shop Installation

  hosts: host_list

  vars_prompt: 

    - name: "githubuser" 

      prompt: "Enter your github username" 

      private: no 

    - name: "githubpassword" 

      prompt: "Enter your github password" 

      private: yes



- hosts: host_list

  tasks:

  - name: Get the latest version through Git

    git:

    repo: 'https://{{ githubuser }}:{{ githubpassword }}@github.com/foo/bar.git'

    dest: /tmp

After running through this, I get the following error message:

fatal: : FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'githubuser' is undefinednnThe error appears to have been in 'playbook.yml'

Any ideas where I may have gone wrong here?

I am running Ansible 2.7.1

I think the structure of your playbook is wrong. Try this:

---

- hosts: host_list

  vars_prompt: 

    - name: "githubuser" 

      prompt: "Enter your github username" 

      private: no 

    - name: "githubpassword" 

      prompt: "Enter your github password" 

      private: yes



  tasks:

  - name: Get the latest version through Git

    git:

      repo: 'https://{{ githubuser }}:{{ githubpassword }}@github.com/foo/bar.git'

      dest: /tmp

Scope of vars_prompt is a playbook.

Variable githubuser is defined in the first play. Second play knows nothing about it.

Would I have to pass the variable value from the first play to the second? What's the correct way of doing that in this context?

An option would be to configure fact_caching. For example with Redis

[defaults]

fact_caching=redis

In the first play store the variables with set_fact cacheable: yes

In the second play fetch data from Redis