access to the variable

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1

Hi all!

Have some trouble in the access to the part of variable.
I have following configuration:

`
service_user:

  • { name: “service”, pass: “blablabla”, flags: “ADMIN” }

`

and later:

`

  • name: “Stage 3: start service”
    command: “start-service.sh -u {{ service_user.name }}”
    `

when playbook playing, at this place I got error “One or more undefined variables: ‘list object’ has no attribute ‘name’”

Also service_user variable is used in the jinja template and work properly.
How to do it right, and don’t break variable usage in template?

2

What you want is actually:

service_user:
name: “service”
pass: “blablabla”
flags: “ADMIN”

The ‘-’ at the beginning of the line is defining a list/array element, as opposed to a dict/hash

In your current configuration, you would need to use ‘service_user[0].name’

3

Thanks!
Now works fine.