I’m trying to remove config files from a host if they are no longer managed by ansible.
The ansible managed files are in a dictionary similar to the following :
config_files:
vhost01:
servername: vhost01
domain: company.com
vhost02:
servername: vhost02
domain: company.com
And get added to the host as follows :
- name: Add ansible managed vhost config files.
template:
src: vhost.j2
dest: “{{ vhost_path }}/{{ item.key }}.conf”
mode: 0644
with_dict: “{{ config_files }}”
But when attempting to remove them with the following it does not work :
-
name: Build list of ansible managed files.
shell: echo “{{ item.key }}.conf”
with_dict: “{{ config_files }}”
register: managed_files -
name: Build list of config files on host.
shell: ls -1 “{{ vhost_path }}”
register: vhost_config_files -
name: Remove unmanaged vhost config files.
file:
path: “{{ vhost_path }}/{{ item }}”
state: absent
with_items: vhost_config_files.stdout_lines
when: item not in managed_files.stdout_lines
The error is as follows :
Unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string ({% if item not in managed_files.stdout_lines %} True {% else %} False {% endif %})
Here is the output of managed_files :
{“msg”: “All items completed”, “changed”: true, “results”: [{“_ansible_parsed”: true, “changed”: true, “stdout”: “vhost02.conf”, “_ansible_item_result”: true, “warnings”: , “delta”: “0:00:00.002037”, “stdout_lines”: [“vhost02.conf”], “end”: “2017-01-10 12:14:06.090689”, “_ansible_no_log”: false, “start”: “2017-01-10 12:14:06.088652”, “cmd”: “echo "vhost02.conf"”, “item”: {“key”: “vhost02”, “value”: {“servername”: “vhost02”, “domain”: “company.com”}}, “stderr”: “”, “rc”: 0, “invocation”: {“module_name”: “command”, “module_args”: {“warn”: true, “executable”: null, “_uses_shell”: true, “_raw_params”: “echo "vhost02.conf"”, “removes”: null, “creates”: null, “chdir”: null}}}, {“_ansible_parsed”: true, “changed”: true, “stdout”: “vhost01.conf”, “_ansible_item_result”: true, “warnings”: , “delta”: “0:00:00.002117”, “stdout_lines”: [“vhost01.conf”], “end”: “2017-01-10 12:14:06.253953”, “_ansible_no_log”: false, “start”: “2017-01-10 12:14:06.251836”, “cmd”: “echo "vhost01.conf"”, “item”: {“key”: “vhost01”, “value”: {“servername”: “vhost01”, “domain”: “company.com”}}, “stderr”: “”, “rc”: 0, “invocation”: {“module_name”: “command”, “module_args”: {“warn”: true, “executable”: null, “_uses_shell”: true, “_raw_params”: “echo "vhost01.conf"”, “removes”: null, “creates”: null, “chdir”: null}}}]}
Here is the output of vhost_config_files :
{“start”: “2017-01-10 12:14:06.895256”, “delta”: “0:00:00.002718”, “cmd”: “ls -1 "/etc/nginx/conf.d"”, “end”: “2017-01-10 12:14:06.897974”, “stderr”: “”, “stdout”: “dummy.conf\nvhost01.conf\nvhost02.conf\nvhost03.conf”, “stdout_lines”: [“dummy.conf”, “vhost01.conf”, “vhost02.conf”, “vhost03.conf”], “changed”: true, “rc”: 0, “warnings”: }
I would expect it to remove dummy.conf and vhost03.conf from the host.
Any help on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
I am running Ansible version 2.2.0.0