Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

Creating loops in ansible

Ansible provides many ways to repeat the same task inside a play, but with a different value each time. For example, when you want to install multiple packages on a server, you don't need to create a task for each package. Rather, you can create a task that installs a package and provides a list of package names to the task, and Ansible will iterate over them until it finishes the installation. To accomplish this, we will need the with_items flag inside of the task that contains a list, and the variable {{ item }}, which serves as a placeholder for the items in the list. The playbook will leverage the with_items flag to iterate over a set of packages and provide them to the yum module, which requires the name and ...