I have been using a horrible hacky workaround, specifically, adding the key
as a field to the dict element:
vars:
users:
bob:
name: bob
authorized_keys:
- "ssh-rsa a..."
- "ssh-rsa b..."
alice:
name: alice
authorized_keys:
- "ssh-rsa c..."
tasks:
- authorized_key: user=item.0.name key="{{ item.1 }}"
with_subelements:
- "{{ users }}"
- authorized_keys
This is difficult to maintain because the two names can get out of sync, it
is not intuitive at all that making a new user should include the name
again when its already used as the key. It is just the least worst solution
I've found.
I wish there was a sane, unified, flexible solution to looping in Ansible.
As it stands there appear to be a bunch of one-off non-interoperable
looping constructs designed for very narrow purposes. This is easily the
most frustrating aspect of using Ansible for anything non-trivial.
On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 10:10:32 AM UTC-5, Slavek Jurkowski wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Did you find a solution to this? I'm facing the same issue and it sure
> sucks!
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 5:47:01 PM UTC-5, Peter Thorson wrote:
>>
>> when using with_dict, item.key retrieves the dict key and item.value
>> retrieves the value.
>>
>> however, when using with_subelements and having the first item being
>> looped over be a dict, item.0 seems to return only the value. Is there a way
>>
>> concrete example:
>>
>> vars:
>> users:
>> bob:
>> authorized_keys:
>> - "ssh-rsa a..."
>> - "ssh-rsa b..."
>> alice:
>> authorized_keys:
>> - "ssh-rsa c..."
>>
>>
>> tasks:
>> - authorized_key: user=??? key="{{ item.1 }}"
>> with_subelements:
>> - "{{ users }}"
>> - authorized_keys
>>
>> How do I retrieve the username? I understand that I could change users
>> into a list and add username as a property. I want to avoid that because
>> this users list is used for lots of different things where being able to
>> look up information about a user by username is required.
>>
>
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