Lookup plugins — Ansible Documentation
docs.ansible.com › ansible › latestDec 21, 2021 · In Ansible 2.5, a new Jinja2 function called query was added for invoking lookup plugins. The difference between lookup and query is largely that query will always return a list. The default behavior of lookup is to return a string of comma separated values. lookup can be explicitly configured to return a list using wantlist=True.
Loops — Ansible Documentation
docs.ansible.com › ansible › latestLoops . 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.
Ansible Lookup Plugins | Newbedev
https://newbedev.com/ansible/plugins/lookupAs demonstrated above, the behavior of wantlist=True is implicit when using query. Additionally, q was introduced as a shortform of query: q ('dict', dict_variable) Plugin list You can use ansible-doc -t lookup -l to see the list of available plugins. Use ansible-doc -t lookup <plugin name> to see specific documents and examples. See also