How to pass shell variable to ansible playbook command - shell

Question

I have this Jenkins pipeline where I need to run ansiblePlaybook() command with inventory file. Inventory file does contain date (current date) part (my-instance-ips-(mm-dd-yyyy)). Here, I am facing issue in creating currentDate variable and pass into pipeline script
Jenkins File:
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage ( 'Executing shell script' ) {
steps {
script {
sh """
currentDate = "\$(date +'%m-%d-%Y')"
inventory_file = "my-instance-ips-{$currentDate}.yml"
ansiblePlaybook (
playbook: 'task.yml',
inventory: $inventory_file,
installation: 'ansible-2.6.5','
-e "DATE = $currentDate")
"""
}
}
}
}
}
Error Message:
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: currentDate for class: groovy.lang.Bindin
Could someone help me out to create current date in pipeline script and the same should pass over to ansible playbook command?

Answer 1

Looks like you are invoking ansible plugin. If that is what you are trying to achive, then your ansible playbook call should not be inside sh step.
You need to get the command's output first then invoke ansible plugin.
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage ( 'Executing shell script' ) {
steps {
script {
/* currentDate = sh (
script: "date +'%m-%d-%Y'"
returnStatus: true
).trim()
*/
cDate = java.time.LocalDate.now()
currentDate = cDate.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-yyyy"))
inventory_file = "my-instance-ips-${currentDate}.yml"
println inventory_file
ansiblePlaybook ([
playbook: 'task.yml',
// credentialsId: 'xxxx',
disableHostKeyChecking: true,
inventory: "${inventory_file}",
extraVars: [
DATE: "${currentDate}"
]
])
}
}
}
}
}