Ansible Variable by Raj Gupta

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ cat variablel.yml
-
  name: this is our first playbook.
  hosts: all
  vars:
    servicename: apache2
  tasks:
    -
      name: 'creating file using variable'
      service: name={{ servicename }} state=started
[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ ansible-playbook variablel.yml -i inventory.txt

Now Run the below command on client to check the status of apache2

[root@ip-172-31-85-190 ~]# service apache2 status

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Now to stop the ftp service 

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ vi variablel.yml

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ cat variablel.yml

-

  name: this is our first playbook.

  hosts: all

  vars:

    servicename: vsftpd

  tasks:

    -

      name: 'creating file using variable'

      service: name={{ servicename }} state=stopped

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ ansible-playbook variablel.yml -i inventory.txt