template with groups as a variable

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I am trying to do the following where I index groups by a variable instead of hardcoding it. Is that possible somehow?

{% for host in groups[‘{{VAR}}’] %}

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{% endfor %}

Thanks in advance,

Edgardo

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You can’t nest jinja2 delimiters. You just use bare variable names inside such as:

{% for host in groups[VAR] %}

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I figured it out. You can just do the following and it will work.

{% for host in groups[VAR] %}

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Thanks Matt! is there way to do this in a playbook. The first one works the second one doesn’t.

  • debug: msg=“hey {{ item }}”
    with_items: groups[‘tag_env_prod’]

  • debug: msg=“hey {{ item }}”
    with_items: groups[‘{{group_name}}’]

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- debug: msg="hey {{ item }}"
    with_items: "{{groups[group_name]}}"