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 }}"

Answer 2

As of Ansible 2.8 there is ansible_play_name which contains the name of the currently executed play.

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48562
• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/special_variables.html

Answer 3

As of Ansible 2.2:

{{role_name}}

As of Ansible 2.1:

{{role_path|basename}}

Older versions:

There is no way to do this in the current version of Ansible, here are a couple options that might work for you instead:

1) Use set_fact to set a role_name var to the name the of role as the first task in your tasks/main.yml file

- set_fact: role_name=some-role-name

2) Pass a parameter to your role that has the name

- roles:
  - role: some-role-name
    role_name: some-role-name

Answer 4

The simplest way is to just use the following

{{role_path|basename}}