Security Automation with Ansible 2

Loops example

The following task adds users using the Jinja2 templating. This allows for dynamic functionality in playbooks. We can use variables to store data when required, we just need to update the variables rather than the entire playbook:

- name: add several users
  user:
    name: "{{ item.name }}"
    state: present
    groups: "{{ item.groups }}"
  with_items:
    - { name: 'testuser1', groups: 'wheel' }
    - { name: 'testuser2', groups: 'root' }