merge 2 arrays into array of dictionaries

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1 
I have 2 arrays



"containers": [
            "ContainerA", 
            "ContainerA", 
            "ContainerB", 
            "ContainerB"
        ]

"apps": [
            "app2", 
            "app1", 
            "app2", 
            "app1"
        ]

I would like to merge them into an array of dictionaries like this ( I assume with set_fact ):

services:
- { container: 'ContainerA', app: 'app2' }
- { container: 'ContainerA', app: 'app1' }
- { container: 'ContainerB', app: 'app2' } 
- { container: 'ContainerB', app: 'app1' }



How can I do that?
2

How do you plan on using this data. Maybe there is a different way to achieve your result, because it won’t be easy or straight forward to get what you want.

Maybe with_together on a task could give you what you want instead:

  • debug: var=item
    with_together:

  • apps

  • containers

3 
I plan to use it in a template like so:

{% for source in services %}


container={{source.container}}

app={{source.app}}

{% endfor %}
4

Perhaps the following will achieve your goal:

{% for source in lookup(‘together’, containers, apps, wantlist=True) %}
container={{ source.0 }}
app={{ source.1 }}
{% endfor %}