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Setting the Environment (and Working With Proxies)
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.. 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.  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