18.06.2021 · Ansible blocks provide a convenient way to logically group tasks. So it is unfortunate that native Ansible syntax does not allow looping to be combined with a block. Consider the simple conditional block below controlled by a variable ‘do_block_logic’:
All tasks in a block inherit directives applied at the block level. Most of what you can apply to a single task (with the exception of loops) can be applied at ...
18.11.2019 · Support for this feature in Ansible was requested back in 2015, discussed at length, and finally closed in late 2017. See feature request: looping over blocks #13262 . – bitinerant
04.03.2019 · I have set of Ansible Playbook tasks which i would like to run in loop with a max limit (for instance, 3 times max if the condition is not satisfied). I …
Fortunately, Ansible supports looping over datasets to ensure that you can perform large scale operations using tightly defined code. In this section, we will explore how to make practical use of loops in your Ansible playbooks. Iterating over a simple loop
08.07.2018 · ansible tip: block to the rescue in a loop Osvaldo Toja Jul 8, 2018 · 1 min read Ansible stops playbook execution on a task failure. You can choose to …
20.11.2020 · Ansible – Loop over multiple tasks. The last time I wrote about Ansible and the possibility to use blocks to group multiple tasks. Which you can read here. Sadly this feature does not work with loop, so there is no clean way to loop over multiple tasks in a play without writing the same loop statement at tasks over and over.
23.05.2016 · Unfortunately the above code wont work for you as Ansible is currently (2.0.2) not supporting looping over the block. But fortunately we have an alternative for this. We can do the following steps to make the above thing working for us: Create a separate file and put all the task you want to loop over.Suppose file name is includeFile.yml :
20.06.2019 · In this blog post I will cover how we can loop groups/blocks of tasks within Ansible. Currently using -block: will not work. However you can use …
Loops Ansible offers the loop, with_<lookup>, and until keywords to execute a task multiple times. Examples of commonly-used loops include changing ownership on several files and/or directories with the file module, creating multiple users with the user module, and repeating a polling step until a certain result is reached. Note