How to loop over this dictionary in Ansible?
Say I have this dictionary
war_files:
server1:
- file1.war
- file2.war
server2:
- file1.war
- file2.war
- file3.war
and for now I just want to loop over each item (key), and then over each item in the key (value). I did this
- name: Loop over the dictionary
debug: msg="Key={{ item.key }} value={{ item.value }}"
with_dict: "{{ war_files }}"
And I get this. It is of course correct, but is NOT what I want.
ok: [localhost] => (item={'value': [u'file1.war', u'file2.war'], 'key': u'server1'}) => {
"item": {
"key": "server1",
"value": [
"file1.war",
"file2.war"
]
},
"msg": "Server=server1, WAR=[u'file1.war', u'file2.war']"
}
ok: [localhost] => (item={'value': [u'file1.war', u'file2.war', u'file3.war'], 'key': u'server2'}) => {
"item": {
"key": "server2",
"value": [
"file1.war",
"file2.war",
"file3.war"
]
},
"msg": "Server=server2, WAR=[u'file1.war', u'file2.war', u'file3.war']"
}
I want to get an output that says
"msg": "Server=server1, WAR=file1.war"
"msg": "Server=server1, WAR=file2.war"
"msg": "Server=server2, WAR=file1.war"
"msg": "Server=server2, WAR=file2.war"
"msg": "Server=server2, WAR=file3.war"
IOW, how can I write a task to iterates over the dictionary so it goes through each key, and then the items within each key? In essence, I have a nested array and want to iterate over it?
Hows this
- hosts: localhost
vars:
war_files:
server1:
- file1.war
- file2.war
server2:
- file1.war
- file2.war
- file3.war
tasks:
- name: Loop over subelements of the dictionary
debug:
msg: "Key={{ item.0.key }} value={{ item.1 }}"
loop: "{{ war_files | dict2items | subelements('value') }}"
dict2items
, subelements
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