Hi there, first post here so just a quick thank you to everybody who has contributed to ansible, it'a fantastic piece of software.
I'm trying to specify hosts and roles at run time from cli while using a template playbook like this: # ideal playbook --- - hosts: "{{var_hosts}}" roles: - { role: {{item}} } with_items: "{{var_roles}}" # cli call ansible-playbook play.yml -e "var_hosts=host, var_roles=[role1, role2]" This however did not work for me, it just seems it's not possible to use with_items on "roles". Since I'm on 2.2 I thought I may use include_role, so I tried this: --- - hosts: "{{var_hosts}}" tasks: - name: include roles include_role: name: "{{item}}" with_items: {{var_roles}} this however failed with ERROR! 'item' is undefined I thought I might not be able to use vars there, but if I define a var such as "role" and use it instead of "item" it works: - hosts: "{{var_hosts}}" vars: role: test tasks: - name: include roles include_role: name: "{{role}}" am I doing something wrong? is there any way I can pass roles from cli and load them dynamically? thanks, Spike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f77be684-6507-4d88-ad79-8969048b2b2c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.