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How to set remote environment per Ansible task or play?

I'm going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot.

Set remote environment per Ansible task or play

environment statement

You could set the remote environment with the Ansible statement environment.

The environment statement could be applied at the task level or play level.

It's very useful to set for example proxy in a corporate environment.

Links

[Setting the remote environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_environment.html)

## Playbook

Set environment per Ansible Playbook task or play level.

code

``yaml


---
name: remote environment Playbook
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  environment:
    EXAMPLE: test1
tasks:
    - name: diplay EXAMPLE
      ansible.builtin.command: "echo $EXAMPLE"
    - name: diplay EXAMPLE
      ansible.builtin.command: "echo $EXAMPLE"
      environment:
        EXAMPLE: test2



execution

You need to run the playbook with the verbose option (-v) in order to see the standard output on the console.

``bash

ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory ansible\ statements/environment-remote.yml

PLAY [remote environment Playbook] **

TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] *

changed: [demo.example.com]

TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] *

changed: [demo.example.com]

PLAY RECAP **

demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory ansible\ statements/environment-remote.yml -v

No config file found; using defaults

PLAY [remote environment Playbook] **

TASK [diplay EXAMPLE] *

changed: [demo.example.com] => {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"}, "changed": true, "cmd": ["echo", "$EXAMPLE"], "delta": "0:00:00.002864", "end": "2022-02-21 09:05:33.059864", "msg": "", "rc": 0, "start": "2022-02-21 09:05:33.057000", "stderr":