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@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ You will want to quote any hash values using colons, like so:
And then the colon will be preserved.
+Further, Ansible uses "{{ var }}" for variables. If a value after a colon starts
+with a "{", YAML will think it a dictionary, so you must quote it, like so::
+
+ foo: "{{ variable }}"
+
+
.. seealso::
:doc:`playbooks`