Question:
I have a problem to find a working solution to loop over my inventory.
I start my playbook with linking a intentory file:
ansible-playbook -i inventory/dev.yml playbook.yml
My playbook looks like this:
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--- - hosts: localhost tasks: - name: Create VM if enviro == true include_role: name: local_vm_creator when: enviro == 'dev' |
So when loading the playbook the variable enviro is read from host_vars and sets the when condition to dev. The inventory file dev.yml looks like this:
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[local_vm] 192.168.99.100 192.168.99.101 192.168.99.102 [local_vm_manager_1] 192.168.99.103 [local_vm_manager_2] 192.168.99.104 [local-all:children] local_vm local_vm_manager_1 local_vm_manager_2 |
My main.yml in my role local_vm_creator looks like this:
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--- - name: Create test host local_action: shell docker-machine create -d virtualbox {{ item }} with_items: - node-1 - node-2 - node-3 - node-4 - node-5 - debug: msg="host is {{item}}" with_items: groups['local_vm'] |
And the problem is that i can’t get the listed servers from the dev.yml inventory file.
it just returns:
ok: [localhost] => (item=groups[‘local_vm’]) => {
“item”: “groups[‘local_vm’]”,
“msg”: “host is groups[‘local_vm’]” }
Answer:
If the only problem is with_items loop, replace it with:
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with_items: "{{ groups['local_vm'] }}" |
and you are good to go. Bare variables are not supported in with_ any more.