I want it to loop because, assuming i'm creating 1000 instances, it will be
inconvenient to do it one by one.
So I wish to know how to insert variables which specific the number to
create or assign as port.
Thanks
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:47 PM, DEBORAH AKUOKO <
ewurama.minka.aku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This was awesome David,
>
> It worked perfectly. Thanks.
> But one thing, I want to assign port and shutdown port to each of these 3
> directories.
>
> manually, i do it in ubuntu with
> sudo tomcat-instance1-create -p 8081 -c 8006 timo
> sudo tomcat-instance2-create -p 8082 -c 8007 pumba
>
> where -p specifies the running port of the instance and -c is the shutdown
> port
>
> How do I get this to work in ansible ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:12 PM, David Karban <da...@karban.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Deborah,
>>
>> use with_items:
>>
>> - name: Creating multiple tomcat instance
>> file: dest=/var/lib/tomcat-instance{{ item }} state=directory
>> with_items:
>> - 1
>> - 2
>> - 3
>>
>> Or, maybe better way with_sequence:
>> - name: Creating multiple tomcat instance
>> file: dest=/var/lib/tomcat-instance{{ item }} state=directory
>> with_sequence: start=1 end=3
>>
>> More about loops: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html
>>
>>
>> David Karban
>> Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
>> www.karban.eu
>>
>> 2015-10-01 17:05 GMT+02:00 DEBORAH AKUOKO <ewurama.minka.aku...@gmail.com
>> >:
>>
>>> I am trying to create multiple directories with different names e.g
>>> tomacat-1, tomcat-2 etc..
>>> But i want to do this in the form of a loop. Kindly help me with the
>>> yaml syntax.
>>>
>>> this is what i tried
>>>
>>> - name: Creating multiple tomcat instance
>>> file: dest=/var/lib/tomcat-instance{1..3} state=directory
>>>
>>> But instead of creating three directories, it creates only one with name
>>> "tomcat-instance{1..3}"
>>> Also i would like each of these folders to have a unique port id and
>>> shutdown port e.g -p 8000 -c 8006
>>>
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