How to get current role name in an ansible task
The simplest way is to just use the following
{{role_path|basename}}
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
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 }}"