List and Dict combined

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1

Hi,

Can a list have a combination of dict and lists? Below is my data and jinja2 template, while running the play book get an error.

snmp:
location: xyz
contact: admin

  • community:
    name: public
    access: read-only
    clients:
  • hosts: 8.8.8.8
  • hosts: 10.10.10.10
  • community:
    name: private
    access: read-write
    clients:
  • hosts: 3.3.3.3
  • hosts: 4.4.4.4

snmp {
location “{{ snmp.location }}”“;
contact “{{ snmp.contact }}”;”
{% for snmp in snmp %}
community {{ snmp.community.name }} {
authorization {{ snmp.community.access }};
clients {
{% for client in snmp.community.clients %}
{{ client.hosts }};
{% endfor %}
}
}
{% endfor %}
}

(ansible)Vishals-MBP:ansible vishalc$ ansible-playbook main.yml
ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, /etc/ansible/group_vars/lab.yml
Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 27, column 5

contact: admin

  • community:
    ^

Vishal

2

Not quite, but you can have a dictionary member whose value is a list:

snmp:
      location: xyz
      contact: admin
      community:
        - name: public
          access: read-only
          clients:
            - hosts: 8.8.8.8
            - hosts: 10.10.10.10
        - name: private
          access: read-write
          clients:
            - hosts: 3.3.3.3
            - hosts: 4.4.4.4

And here, each element of the 'community' list is a dict.

3

That works, thanks!