Variable substitution problem in task name

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Hi,

I have a problem with the Variable substitution in task name, like:

  • name: VPC | Write public subnets id to ‘{{ vpc_name }}’_vpc_info.yml file
    local_action: shell echo “{{ item.id }}” > ./vars/{{ item.resource_tags.Name }}.yml
    with_items: vpc.subnets

But when I run this playbook, it gave me the result like this:

TASK: [VPC | Write public subnets id to ‘{{ vpc_name }}’_vpc_info.yml file] ***

changed: [localhost → 127.0.0.1] => (item={u’resource_tags’: {u’Name’: u’tendo_public_subnet’}, u’cidr’: u’172.25.10.0/24’, u’az’: u’ap-southeast-2a’, u’id’: u’subnet-947bbce3’})
changed: [localhost → 127.0.0.1] => (item={u’resource_tags’: {u’Name’: u’tendo_private_subnet’}, u’cidr’: u’172.25.20.0/24’, u’az’: u’ap-southeast-2b’, u’id’: u’subnet-5be23b3e’})

instead it should give result like this, which i expect:

TASK: [VPC | Write public subnets id to tendo_vpc_info.yml file] ***

changed: [localhost → 127.0.0.1] => (item={u’resource_tags’: {u’Name’: u’tendo_public_subnet’}, u’cidr’: u’172.25.10.0/24’, u’az’: u’ap-southeast-2a’, u’id’: u’subnet-947bbce3’})
changed: [localhost → 127.0.0.1] => (item={u’resource_tags’: {u’Name’: u’tendo_private_subnet’}, u’cidr’: u’172.25.20.0/24’, u’az’: u’ap-southeast-2b’, u’id’: u’subnet-5be23b3e’})

Can somebody point me that where I am making mistake? Thanks

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No solution but only a confirmation that I see thisas well, at least
in some cases while in other cases the variable is substituted in the
task name.
Regards Mirko

3

Hi Arbab,

That’s just the way Ansible works, the ‘- name’ item is not parsed for variable substitution. That’s pissed me off too.

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This is a known bug in 1.8, it should work for variables that are in
scope (non inventory/host).