Read an environment variable — Ansible lookup plugin env

How to automate the reading of HOME environmental variable and use it in your Ansible Playbook code with lookup plugin env.

How to read an environment variable on Ansible Controller with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible read an environment variable

• ansible.builtin.env
• Read the value of environment variables

Let’s deep dive into the Ansible lookup plugin env.
Plugins are a way to expand the Ansible functionality. With lookup plugins specifically, you can load variables or templates with information from external sources.
The full name is `ansible.builtin.env`, it’s part of `ansible-core` and is included in all Ansible installations.
The purpose of the `env` lookup plugin is to read the value of environment variables.

Parameters and Return Value