host_vars ignored by Jinja2 template

[dar72]

Issue Type

• Bug Report

Module Name

juniper_junos_config

juniper.device collection and Python libraries version

ansible 2.10.8
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/support/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.6 (main, Nov 14 2022, 16:10:14) [GCC 11.3.0]
  Jinja2==3.0.3
  juniper.device    1.0.2

OS / Environment

QFX 5100 JUNOS 20.1R1.11

Summary

I'm trying to put initial configs onto devices via the console port. When trying to use Jinja2 to create a base config including variables, the host_vars files seem to be ignored. No variables placed in host_vars are available to the template.

Steps to reproduce

---
- name: Load Initial Configuration
  hosts: qfx1
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  vars_prompt:
    - name: "DEVICE_PASSWORD"
      prompt: "Device password"
      private: yes

  tasks:
    - name: Load initial configuration and commit
      juniper.device.config:
        passwd: "{{ DEVICE_PASSWORD }}"
        user: "root"
        mode: "serial"
        load: "overwrite"
        template: "configs/qfx_base.conf"
        format: "text"
        vars:
          myvar: "test"
      register: response
    - name: Print the response
      debug:
        var: response

Expected results

Actual results

ansible-playbook -i hosts config_push_serial.yml              
Device password: 

PLAY [Load Initial Configuration] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Load initial configuration and commit] *************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [qfx1]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
    },
    "changed": false
}

MSG:

Failure loading the configuraton: ConfigLoadError(severity: error, bad_element: ;, message: error: invalid value
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
warning: mgd: statement has no contents; ignored
error: invalid ip address or hostname: /32
error: invalid value
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
error: error recovery ignores input until this point
warning: mgd: statement has no contents; ignored)

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
qfx1                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0