Accessing file content via ansible

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file.txt

rpmname: version
rpmname: version

Playbook:-

  • hosts: all
    gather_facts: false

tasks:

  • name: store the value
    shell: cat /etc/ansible/playbooks/file.txt
    register: versions
  • name: Ansible Dictionary variable Example
    debug:
    msg: “rpmname is {{ item.key}} and value is {{item.value}}”

i want to access multiple key values in ansible -playbook to perform operation. looks like something is missing to access that values.

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Hello ansible team can anyone suggest?

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Where did 'item' come from? Usually, when you use a task in a loop, you can access the loop item via the variable 'item'. I don't see a loop in your playbook.

In your example, look at versions.stdout for file contents. Or use the Slurp module to read file contents.

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Hi Sudheer,

Thats the problem now how should we iterate items.

[test@4c594b5b8054 playbooks]$ ansible-playbook -vv test3.yaml
ansible-playbook 2.8.1
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [u’/home/test/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
python version = 2.7.5 (default, Jun 20 2019, 20:27:34) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)]
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

PLAYBOOK: test3.yaml ********************************************************************************************
1 plays in test3.yaml

PLAY [all] ******************************************************************************************************
META: ran handlers

TASK [store the value] ******************************************************************************************
task path: /etc/ansible/playbooks/test3.yaml:5
changed: [127.0.0.1] => {“ansible_facts”: {“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python”}, “changed”: true, “cmd”: “cat /etc/ansible/playbooks/file.txt”, “delta”: “0:00:01.326287”, “end”: “2019-07-11 12:33:51.894849”, “rc”: 0, “start”: “2019-07-11 12:33:50.568562”, “stderr”: “”, “stderr_lines”: , “stdout”: “httpd: 2.4\napache: 2.8”, “stdout_lines”: [“httpd: 2.4”, “apache: 2.8”]}

TASK [Ansible Dictionary variable Example] **********************************************************************
task path: /etc/ansible/playbooks/test3.yaml:8
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “with_dict expects a dict”}

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************
127.0.0.1 : ok=1 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

in this example its required the content should be dictionary format.

But if you take vars in anisbleplaybook itself it will work because vars is in dict format.