Item name in task name.

[Varun Chopra]

Hi,

I'm trying to display the item name in the name of the task but it doesn't work as intended.

Here's part of my play:

  tasks:
    - name: Installing {{ item }}
      yum:
        name: "{{ item }}"
        state: latest
      with_items:
        - httpd
        - firewalld

This is what I get when I run the play:

TASK [Installing {{ item }}] ******************************************************************************************
ok: [servera.example.com] => (item=[u'httpd', u'firewalld'])

Is this supposed to work this way? I

[ZillaYT]

Try enclosing the name in double-quotes, e.g.,

  tasks:
    - name: "Installing {{ item }}"
      yum:
        name: "{{ item }}"
        state: latest
      with_items:
        - httpd
        - firewalld

[Malcolm Hussain-Gambles]

I don't think you can do that, as the item isn't defined when it prints the name section. I also seem to remember that certain modules,like yum will process the list in one go. Rather than doing two yum installs.

[Varun Chopra]

This doesn't matter.

[Varun Chopra]

Yeah, you're right!

Thanks!

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 16.10.27 CET Varun Chopra wrote:
> Yeah, you're right!

There is a workaround to get if you want it, it involves include_tasks.

file-to-include.yml
---

- name: Installing {{ item }}
yum:
name: "{{ item }}"
state: latest

tasks:
- include_tasks: file-to-include.yml

with_items:
- httpd
- firewalld

But this will be a bit slower since you are running yum one by one for each item.
When you have with_items on the yum task it will install all of them in one yum command.


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Kai Stian Olstad