Sorting a fact in Ansible

[lift...@gmail.com]

I am trying to sort a list when setting a fact in Ansible as follows:

  - name: Get installed packages

    become: true

    become_method: sudo

    package_facts:

    register: installed

  - name: Set package facts

    set_fact:

      packages: "{{ ansible_facts.packages|dict2items|sort }}"

This works when I run it from the command line, but when I do this within Ansible Tower, I get the following error:

Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({{ ansible_facts.packages|dict2items|sort }}): '<' not supported between instances of 'dict' and 'dict'

I know this isn't a Tower list, but would anyone have any idea why this would work in the Ansible CLI but not in Tower?

Thanks,

Harry

[Matt Martz]

I'd recommend that you use `dictsort` instead of `dict2items`  It achieves the goal very similarly, but sorts by default, and would avoid the error you are getting.

The biggest difference is instead of having `item.key` and `item.value`, you have `item.0` and `item.1`.

https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/latest/templates/#jinja-filters.dictsort

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[lift...@gmail.com]

So if I set the fact as follows:

  - name: Set package facts

    set_fact:

      packages: "{{ ansible_facts.packages|dictsort }}"

How would I traverse that in my template?:

{% for v in hostvars[i]['packages'] %}

{% for pkg in v.value %}

Package: {{ pkg.name }}  Version: {{ pkg.version}}  Arch: {{ pkg.arch }}  Release: {{ pkg.release }}

{% endfor %}

{% endfor %}

Thanks,

Harry

[Matt Martz]

from a quick glance, it looks like you would change `v.value` to `v.1`

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[lift...@gmail.com]

OK, that took care of it.  Worked great!  I appreciate the timely response!

Thanks,

Harry