Using with_items in a block statement

[lift...@gmail.com]

I'd like to do an operation on several VMs that have 2 plays for each.  Those are using the VMware collection to find the VMs folder in the datacenter, then use that folder to take a snapshot of the VM.

What I was hoping to do was something like this:

block:

  - name: Find folder

    <play to retrieve folder info>

  - name: Take snapshot

    <play to take the snapshot>

with_items:

  - "vm1"

  - "vm2"

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Harry

[Matt Martz]

No, you cannot loop on a block.  You can put the tasks in another YAML file, and use `include_tasks` instead, which you can loop on.

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[lift...@gmail.com]

A follow-up question:

I have the "include_tasks" working, now I'm trying to expand on that.  Each iteration through retrieve's a VM's snapshot info and registers that into a variable.  This is within the "loop" task for each VM.  When I try to print that out, all I get is:

TASK [Print results] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": {
        "changed": false,
        "failed": false,
        "guest_snapshots": {}
    }
}

Eventually I'd like to put that into a template and email it, but how can I retrieve that variable for each iteration?

Thanks,

Harry