Ansible: how to globally set PATH for solaris

I am writing Ansible playbooks to install and install our applications on Solaris servers.

The problem is that the scripts (bash) I need to execute assume that a certain directory is in the PATH, namely /data/bin

- which usually wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for Ansible ignoring everything .profile

and .bashrc

config.

Now I know that you can specify the environment for tasks shell

using a flag environment

, for example like this:

- shell: printenv
  environment:
    PATH: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/data/bin

      

        
        
        
      

    

This will bring up the correct folder path /data/bin

and the command printenv

will display correctly (or my bash scripts will execute correctly).

But. However, there are two problems:

• First of all, it is very annoying to have to specify the environment over and over again. I know that you can define the environment in some variable of the database and reference file, but you still need to set environment: ...
  
  for each individual task shell
  
  .
• Secondly, the above example does not allow me to specify the path dynamically, eg. how PATH: $PATH:/data/bin
  
  - because Ansible does it in a way that doesn't allow it $PATH
  
  , so the command doesn't work disastrously. Therefore, in essence, this will undo any other changes to PATH
  
  .

I am looking for a solution where

• additional entry PATH
  
  needs to be added only once
• additional record PATH
  
  should not override records added by other tasks

PS I found this nice explanation on how to do this on Linux , but uses /etc/environment

which Solaris does not. ( /etc/profile

Again, ignored by Ansible.)