Ansible variables are wrapped between double curly braces. See all the available default variables –> ansible -m setup hostname Variables can be registered statically into the yml file: vars: example_var: “This is a variable example” my_deb_file: zabbix-release_4.4-1+bionic_all.deb Variables can come as parameter from command line ansible-playbook xxxxx.yml –extra-vars “variable=value”