What is the proper way to add a loop for a whole playbook ?

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Normally I’d add my loop at the end of each task but my playbook is growing rather long. How do I set variables in the playbook so that each task will loop though them ? Something like this

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  • name: archive logs
    hosts: localhost
    vars:
    date: “{{ lookup(‘pipe’, ‘date -d "-1 month" +"%m-%Y"’) }}”
    loop:
  • { customer: ‘customer1’, archive: ‘customer1.tgz’, bucket: ‘customer1-log-archive’ }
  • { customer: ‘customer2’, archive: ‘customer2.tgz’, bucket: ‘customer2-log-archive’ }

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hosts: <= this already loops the whole playbook with each host being
an item, other than that, there is no other way.

3

This play is only ran locally. I meant to loop through the customers so that I could have {{ item.customer }} {{ item.archive }} {{ item.bucket }} available as variables in each task in my playbook without having to add the same loop at the end of each task.

4

Create an inventory in which the 'hosts' are customers and associate
the variables to each host, then have the play run `hosts: customer`
and `delegate_to: localhost`/

5

I ended up restructuring my vars a bit:
`

  • name: archive logs
    hosts: localhost
    vars:
  • date: “{{ lookup(‘pipe’, ‘date -d "-1 month" +"%m-%Y"’) }}”
  • customers:
  • { name: ‘customer1’, archive: ‘customer1.tgz’, bucket: ‘customer1-log-archive’ }
  • { name: ‘customer2’, archive: ‘customer2.tgz’, bucket: ‘customer2-log-archive’ }

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Then I just need to add with_items: “{{ customers }}” to the end of each task to get the loop that I wanted.

Thanks for the help.