Ansible when condition with ansible_facts

[Michael Liu]

Hey All,

Trying to create a (when: ) condition, where a task runs only when a mount point does NOT exists.

- name: format disk with ext4

  filesystem: fstype=ext4 dev={{ item }}

  with_items:

    - /dev/xvdc

  when: ansible_mounts.mount doesn't contain "/path/to/my/mount/point"

The expectation is that ansible_mounts contains 1 or more mount points.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Brian Coca]

ansible_mounts is a list of dictionaries, each of which has a 'mount'
so you are really comparing to a complex structure, you can try
something like this (though with set_fact to create the list you
need):

vars:
newdevices:
- /dev/xvdc
- /dev/sda1
tasks:
- debug: msg="mounted {{item.device}}"
with_items: ansible_mounts
when: item.device in newdevices



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Brian Coca