--- - name: Read .env file ansible.builtin.slurp: src: "{{ playbook_dir }}/../.env" delegate_to: localhost register: env_file - name: Build list of key/value pairs ansible.builtin.set_fact: env_lines: "{{ (env_file['content'] | b64decode).splitlines() | select('match', '^[^#=]+=.*$') | list }}" - name: Parse .env file into a dict ansible.builtin.set_fact: env_vars: "{{ env_vars | default({}) | combine({ (item.split('=', 1)[0] | trim): (item.split('=', 1)[1] | trim) }) }}" loop: "{{ env_lines }}"