I was under the impression that if I define a variable with a lookup function, it would store the results of the lookup. And then when I used that variable, it would spit out the results of the lookup.
However, from running a bunch of different test cases that Ansible performs the lookup every time I try to use that variable. Is that by design? Is there a way to avoid repeated lookups?
So… expectation:
`
myvar: lookup(…)
look up stuff and store result of lookup in ‘myvar’
- name: ‘{{ myvar }}’
spit out contents of ‘myvar’
- debug:
var: myvar
spit out contents of ‘myvar’
etc.
`
What seems to be happening is…
`
myvar: lookup(…)
look up stuff
- name: ‘{{ myvar }}’
look at ‘myvar’ and perform the lookup defined by it, then spit out result
- debug:
var: myvar
look at ‘myvar’ and perform the lookup defined by it, then spit out result
etc.
`