template with groups as a variable

Edgardo Vega

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Nov 12, 2015, 7:50:18 AM11/12/15

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I am trying to do the following where I index groups by a variable instead of hardcoding it. Is that possible somehow?

{% for host in groups['{{VAR}}'] %}

STUFF

{% endfor %}

Thanks in advance,

Edgardo

Matt Martz

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Nov 12, 2015, 7:59:20 AM11/12/15

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You can't nest jinja2 delimiters. You just use bare variable names inside such as:

{% for host in groups[VAR] %}

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Edgardo Vega

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Nov 12, 2015, 8:00:24 AM11/12/15

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I figured it out. You can just do the following and it will work.

{% for host in groups[VAR] %}

Edgardo Vega

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Nov 12, 2015, 8:44:59 AM11/12/15

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Thanks Matt! is there way to do this in a playbook. The first one works the second one doesn't.

- debug: msg="hey {{ item }}"

with_items: groups['tag_env_prod']

- debug: msg="hey {{ item }}"

with_items: groups['{{group_name}}']

On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 7:59:20 AM UTC-5, Matt Martz wrote:

You can't nest jinja2 delimiters. You just use bare variable names inside such as:

{% for host in groups[VAR] %}

On Thursday, November 12, 2015, Edgardo Vega <edgard...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to do the following where I index groups by a variable instead of hardcoding it. Is that possible somehow?

{% for host in groups['{{VAR}}'] %}
STUFF
{% endfor %}

Thanks in advance,

Edgardo

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Brian Coca

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Nov 12, 2015, 11:08:16 AM11/12/15

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- debug: msg="hey {{ item }}"
with_items: "{{groups[group_name]}}"

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Edgardo Vega <edgard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Matt! is there way to do this in a playbook. The first one works the
> second one doesn't.
>
> - debug: msg="hey {{ item }}"
> with_items: groups['tag_env_prod']
>
> - debug: msg="hey {{ item }}"
> with_items: groups['{{group_name}}']
>
> On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 7:59:20 AM UTC-5, Matt Martz wrote:
>>
>> You can't nest jinja2 delimiters. You just use bare variable names inside
>> such as:
>>
>> {% for host in groups[VAR] %}
>>
>> On Thursday, November 12, 2015, Edgardo Vega <edgard...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to do the following where I index groups by a variable
>>> instead of hardcoding it. Is that possible somehow?
>>>
>>> {% for host in groups['{{VAR}}'] %}
>>> STUFF
>>> {% endfor %}
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Edgardo
>>>
>>>
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