Ansible-playbook does not working with dictionary and with_items loop!

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It’s a bit of a stretch to say “it works” about the above tasks. First of all,

with_list: global_groups

Doesn’t do anything useful. with_list: expects to be given a list. You’ve given it a string which, by irrelevant coincidence, happens to be the name of a dict.

If you want to iterate over the items in that dict, I recommend using

loop: '{{ global_groups | dict2items  }}'

That will loop over your global_groups dict, making item look like this on respective iterations:

(item={'key': 'production_ansible', 'value': {'gid': 10001}})
(item={'key': 'staging_ansible', 'value': {'gid': 20001}})
(item={'key': 'grafana', 'value': {'gid': 10501}})
(item={'key': 'prometheus', 'value': {'gid': 10502}})
(item={'key': 'zookeeper', 'value': {'gid': 10503}})
(item={'key': 'rundeck', 'value': {'gid': 10504}})
(item={'key': 'nginx', 'value': {'gid': 10505}})
(item={'key': 'gnupgserver', 'value': {'gid': 10506}})
(item={'key': 'sequoia', 'value': {'gid': 10507}})

To get your task to work, you could try something like this:

    - name: User management set global groups macOS
      tags:
        - user_mgmt
        - admin_accounts
      ansible.builtin.group:
        name:  "{{ item.key }}"
        gid:   "{{ item.value.gid | mandatory }}"
        state: "{{ item.value.state | default('present') }}"
      loop: '{{ global_groups | dict2items  }}'
      when:
        - (item.value.state | default('present')) == 'present'

Working your custom_groups and skip_groups back in is left as an exercise for the reader. :slight_smile:
Good luck!

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