Ansible

How to make the variable "use_var" optional?

- name: Install a package
  package:
    name: "zlib"
    state: present
    use: "{{ use_var }}"

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

With "default(omit)"

- name: Install a package
  package:
    name: "zlib"
    state: present
    use: "{{ use_var|default(omit) }}"