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You've never wanted to do something as simple as map over a list in your configuration to handle repetition?

• Spivak 11y ago
  You're talking about eliminating duplicates in a list right? my_list | unique I think this is what you're looking for. Any transformation of data that can't be done with the standard filters can be done with a simple filter plugin written in python.
  • davexunit 11y ago
    >You're talking about eliminating duplicates in a list right? No, I'm talking about any atbitrary list processing operation. Some combination of map, fold, and filter, for example. So, in order to do that in an Ansible playbook, I need to write a Python function to do it and use it in the YAML file as a filter because the DSL isn't expressive enough to do it on its own. So... why wouldn't I want to just use Python again?
    • hakutsuru 11y ago
      I feel as though I do process lists via ansible. You could be less abstract and provide code. Otherwise, it is hard to take this complaint seriously. Here we install Jenkins jobs.... - name: create the job config.xml files sudo: true template: src={{ item }} dest={{ conf_jenkins_home }}/jobs/{{ item | basename | replace(".xml.j2", "") }}/config.xml owner=jenkins group=jenkins mode=0600 with_fileglob: - ../templates/jobs/* notify: restart Jenkins And install SonarQube plugins... - name: install sonar plugins sudo: true get_url: url={{ item.value.url }} dest=/opt/sonarqube/extensions/plugins owner={{ ansible_ssh_user }} group={{ ansible_ssh_user }} mode=0755 with_dict: "{{ sonarqube_plugins }}"