Fix lookup when vars not exists error.

[zhongyiio]

When the docker.yml playbook is located in the root directory, it executes correctly due to the coincidental presence of a vars directory.

However, moving this file into the playbooks directory results in the error “No file was found when using first_found.

# Install docker playbook
- hosts: all
  become: yes

  vars_files:
    - ../vars/{{ env }}/docker.yml

  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.docker
      tags:
        - docker
      when: env == 'develop'

[geerlingguy]

They playbook should typically not exist inside a role directory, rather the role should be included and be located in a roles_path like in ./roles/ with respect to the playbook. What kind of directory structure do you currently have in place?

[zhongyiio]

My directory structure is as follows, docker.yml is the file mentioned in the above text.

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
roles_path = ./roles

.
├── README.md
├── Vagrantfile
├── ansible.cfg
├── inventory
│   └── develop.yml
├── main.yml
├── playbooks
│   ├── docker.yml
│   └── node_exporter.yml
├── requirements.yml
├── roles
│   ├── deploy_docker
│   │   └── tasks
│   │       └── main.yml
│   ├── geerlingguy.docker
│   │   ├── LICENSE
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   ├── defaults
│   │   │   └── main.yml
│   │   ├── handlers
│   │   │   └── main.yml
│   │   ├── meta
│   │   │   └── main.yml
│   │   ├── molecule
│   │   │   └── default
│   │   │       ├── converge.yml
│   │   │       └── molecule.yml
│   │   ├── tasks
│   │   │   ├── docker-compose.yml
│   │   │   ├── docker-users.yml
│   │   │   ├── main.yml
│   │   │   ├── setup-Debian.yml
│   │   │   └── setup-RedHat.yml
│   │   └── vars
│   │       ├── Alpine.yml
│   │       ├── Archlinux.yml
│   │       └── main.yml
└── vars
    └── develop
        ├── all.vault.yml
        ├── all.yml
        ├── docker.yml
        └── node_exporter.yml

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