Is there a way to define a list of values in vars?

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1

Hi,

Is there a way to do the same as “with_items” but globally for the playbook?

For example something like :

variable1:

and use it like this in the playbook.

  • name: Download something
    get_url:
    url=“{{ variable1.url }}”
    dest=“/tmp/{{ variable1.dest}}”

and in an other place use the same infos

  • name: Extract
    unarchive:
    src=/tmp/{{ variable1.src}}
    dest=/tmp/ copy=no
2

Hi,

Is there a way to do the same as "with_items" but globally for the playbook?

For example something like :

variable1:
  - {url: 'http://someting', dest: 'something', src: 'something'}
  - {url: 'http://someting2', dest: 'something2', src: 'something2'}

This will work.

and use it like this in the playbook.

  - name: Download something
    get_url:
      url="{{ variable1.url }}"
      dest="/tmp/{{ variable1.dest}}"

and in an other place use the same infos

- name: Extract
    unarchive:
      src=/tmp/{{ variable1.src}}
      dest=/tmp/ copy=no

But this will not. Since it is a list you need to specify which list item you want.

Fist item (someting):
{{ variable1[0].url }}

Second item (someting2):
{{ variable1[1].url }}

3

Hi,

Thank you. I find this way of doing to do what I need with your help :

vars:
modules:

  • {name: ‘test’, url: ‘https://url’, archive: ‘test.ar.gz’}
  • {name: ‘test2’, url: ‘https://url2’, archive: ‘test.zip’}

tasks:

  • name: Extract archives
    unarchive:
    src=/tmp/{{ item.archive}}
    dest=/tmp/modules copy=no
    with_items: “{{ modules }}”