Conditional doesn't work as expected

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Here’s a snippet of a task I’m trying to run:

TODO: ignore_errors because we don’t know why this even executes when ${shell_accounts} is not set

  • authorized_key: user=${item} key=‘$FILE(${playbook_files_private}/keys/${item}_id_rsa.pub)’
    with_items: ${shell_accounts}
    when_set: ${shell_accounts}
    ignore_errors: yes
    tags:
  • keys.user

First off I tried to use when_set to test if the variable is there. That conditional should be false and ignore the task, but it doesn’t. Then I even went to put a hack to ignore errors and move on but my playbook gets aborted still. I’m using the latest pull as of a few minutes of this post.

Result of $ ansible-playbook -i “lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com,” /etc/ansible/strategybooks/base.yml --extra-vars “hosts=lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com”:

PLAY [Base Playbook] *********************

GATHERING FACTS *********************
ok: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

PLAY [Proxy Playbook] *********************

TASK: [user name=root password=$root_passwd state=present] *********************
skipping: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

TASK: [template src= dest=/root/.bashrc owner=root group=root mode=0644] *********************
changed: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

TASK: [template src= dest=/root/.bash_profile owner=root group=root mode=0644] *********************
changed: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

TASK: [template src= dest=/root/.bash_logout owner=root group=root mode=0644] *********************
changed: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

PLAY [Proxy Playbook] *********************

TASK: [template dest=/etc/motd] *********************
changed: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

PLAY [Proxy Playbook] *********************

TASK: [template dest=/root/.ssh/authorized_keys] *********************
changed: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com]

TASK: [file dest=/home/ state=directory owner= group=users mode=0700] *********************
skipping: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com] => (item=${shell_accounts})

TASK: [authorized_key user= key=‘$FILE(${playbook_files_private}/keys/${item}_id_rsa.pub)’] *********************
fatal: [lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com] => /etc/ansible/strategybooks/files_private/keys/${shell_accounts}_id_rsa.pub does not exist

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP *********************
lamp5.cf5.kernelfire.com : ok=7 changed=5 unreachable=1 failed=0

Looks like I’m doing something wrong?