How to set environmental variables using Ansible

Question

I need to set the variables like JAVA_HOME and update PATH. There are a number of ways of doing this. One way is to update the /etc/environm

Answer 1

Update to the lineinfile approach. The JAVA_HOME value should not include the bin directory. The following worked for centos:

- name: Set JAVA_HOME
  lineinfile:
    dest: /etc/environment
    state: present
    regexp: '^JAVA_HOME'
    line: 'JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk'