How do I use Ansible loop for generalizing things in a role

[Xinhuan Zheng]

Hello,

I'm creating a Ansible role to place a set of scripts to managed hosts so that they can start by cron in a defined schedule. Since it is a set of scripts, I want to generalize the play execution sequence to use a loop. This will be before loop:

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- name: Create directory

  file:

    path: /mydirectory

    state: directory

    owner: root

    group: root

    mode: 0755

- name: Install script1

  template:

    src: script1.sh.j2

    dest: /mydirectory/script1.sh

- name: Create cronjob for script1

  cron:

    name: script1 run every minute

    cron_file: script1_cron

    user: root

    job: /mydirectory/script1.sh

- name: Install script2

  template:

    src: script2.sh.j2

    dest: /mydirectory/script2.sh

- name: Create cronjob for script2

  cron:

    name: script2 run every 10 minutes

    minute: */10

    cron_file: script2_cron

    user: root

    job: /mydirectory/script2.sh

Since it is a set of scripts, I figured it would be possible to generalize using loop but I don't know how. In place of script1/script2, it will be a variable name. How do I generalize every minute, every 10 minutes, every hour, or specific date & time as a variable within a loop?

Thank you,

- Xinhuan Zheng

[Dick Visser]

Loop over a list of dicts.

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