Setting the Environment (and Working With Proxies) ================================================== .. versionadded:: 1.1 It is quite possible that you may need to get package updates through a proxy, or even get some package updates through a proxy and access other packages not through a proxy. Occasionally a script you might wish to call may also need certain environment variables set. Ansible makes it easy for you to configure your environment by using the 'environment' keyword. Here is an example:: - hosts: all remote_user: root tasks: - apt: name=cobbler state=installed environment: http_proxy: http://proxy.example.com:8080 The environment can also be stored in a variable, and accessed like so:: - hosts: all remote_user: root # here we make a variable named "env" that is a dictionary vars: proxy_env: http_proxy: http://proxy.example.com:8080 tasks: - apt: name=cobbler state=installed environment: proxy_env While just proxy settings were shown above, any number of settings can be supplied. The most logical place to define an environment hash might be a group_vars file, like so:: --- # file: group_vars/boston ntp_server: ntp.bos.example.com backup: bak.bos.example.com proxy_env: http_proxy: http://proxy.bos.example.com:8080 https_proxy: http://proxy.bos.example.com:8080