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[Matt Warren]

I recently got around to uninstalling the old MS ansible extension and installing the new one. First thing I noticed is the syntax highlighting seems weaker. I've had all sorts of ansible and yaml extensions installed, so I'm not sure if it's me and my config or features yet to be implemented.

Is there schema config I'm missing? 

The old one:

the new one:

[Govind C]

I am trying to do the following.

I have a variable yaml 

eg:

group_vars.yml

G1:

 - groupname: A

G2:

  - groupname: B

G3:

 - groupname: C

G4:

 - groupname: D

I have this task and I want to pass just the G1 and G2 as extra_vars to the "groups_name" from the command line. How do I go about doing it?

- include_vars: group_vars.yml

- name: Create Group(s)

  group:

    name: "{{ item.groupname }}"

    state: present

  with_items:

     - "{{groups_name}}"

Cheers

[Vladimir Botka]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:58:20 -0400
Govind C <gov...@gmail.com> wrote:

> group_vars.yml
> G1:
> - groupname: A
> G2:
> - groupname: B
> G3:
> - groupname: C
> G4:
> - groupname: D
>

> ... pass just the G1 and G2 as extra_vars to "groups_name" from the command line.

> - include_vars: group_vars.yml
> - name: Create Group(s)
> group:
> name: "{{ item.groupname }}"
> state: present
> with_items:
> - "{{groups_name}}"

Put the data into dictionaries, e.g.

shell> cat group_vars.yml
G1:
groupname: A
G2:
groupname: B
G3:
groupname: C
G4:
groupname: D

Include the variables into a dictionary and extract the keys, e.g.

- include_vars:
file: group_vars.yml
name: d1
- debug:
msg: "{{ item.groupname }}"
loop: "{{ groups_name|
default([])|
map('extract', d1)|
list }}"

The command

shell> ansible-playbook pb.yml -e '{"groups_name": ["G1","G2"]}'

should give

msg: A
msg: B

If you have to keep the data in the lists select the the first item

msg: "{{ item.0.groupname }}"

--
Vladimir Botka