From 6e857468a222e3f1481b5da9b1372ccdf8099082 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <bcoca@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:25:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] expose soem options as vars (#30379)

* expose some useful options as vars for plays and plugins
---
 lib/ansible/utils/vars.py | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py b/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py
index 3d0ce388bb8..7270e79599f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py
@@ -144,12 +144,19 @@ def load_extra_vars(loader, options):
 
 
 def load_options_vars(options, version):
-    options_vars = {}
-    # For now only return check mode, but we can easily return more
-    # options if we need variables for them
-    if hasattr(options, 'check'):
-        options_vars['ansible_check_mode'] = options.check
-    options_vars['ansible_version'] = version
+
+    options_vars = {'ansible_version': version}
+    aliases = {'check': 'check_mode',
+               'diff': 'diff_mode',
+               'inventory': 'inventory_sources',
+               'subset': 'limit',
+               'tags': 'run_tags'}
+
+    for attr in ('check', 'diff', 'forks', 'inventory', 'skip_tags', 'subset', 'tags'):
+        opt = getattr(options, attr, None)
+        if opt is not None:
+            options_vars['ansible_%s' % aliases.get(attr, attr)] = opt
+
     return options_vars