Notify based on with_items variable

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I’m using the template module and would like loop through a bunch of templates for configuration files and execute and handler if need be. I tried the following. And, it failed. I thought it would be cool to avoid descrete template plays for each service.

  • name: Push NRPE configuration files
    template:
    src={{item.j2}}
    dest={{item.dest}}
    mode={{item.mode}}
    backup=yes
    register: nrpe
    notify: {{item.handler}}
    with_items:
  • { j2: “smartos_setup.sh.j2”, dest: “{{smartos_custom}}/share/svc/smartos_setup.sh”, mode: ‘0755’, handler: ‘setup-reload’ }
  • { j2: “nrpe.cfg.j2”, dest: “{{smartos_custom}}/etc/nrpe.cfg”, mode: ‘0644’, handler: ‘nrpe-reload’ }
    tags: smartos_global

Result:

ok: [smartos01] => (item={‘dest’: u’/opt/custom/smf/nrpe/manifest.xml’, ‘handler’: ‘nrpe-reload’, ‘mode’: ‘0644’, ‘j2’: ‘nrpe-manifest.xml.j2’})
changed: [smartos01] => (item={‘dest’: u’/opt/custom/etc/nrpe.cfg’, ‘handler’: ‘nrpe-reload’, ‘mode’: ‘0644’, ‘j2’: ‘nrpe.cfg.j2’})
ERROR: change handler ({{ item.handler }}) is not defined

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Hi Paul,

The way notify works is if any of the tasks is changed (when looping) it will fire the notify.

It does not fire per task.

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for clarifying that for me.

Cheers,
Paul