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+{#
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#}
+# /etc/default/edge-mon-agent
+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+{% for key, val in edgemonagent_env_vars.items() %}
+{{ key }}="{{ val }}"
+{% endfor %}
+