How to get current role name in an ansible task

Question

How can I get the current role name in an ansible task yaml file?

I would like to do something like this

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# role/some-role-name/tasks/main.yml

- name         


        

Answer 1

See this post:

To get the role directory:

role_dir: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'pwd') | dirname }}"

To get the role name:

role_name: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'pwd') | dirname | basename }}"