I'm running into the infamous issue where with_items isn't skipped if when
evaluates to false (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13791). That
said, I'm at loss as to how to workaround my particular issue.
Consider these two tasks (simplified for discussion):
#> cat b.yml
---
- hosts: 1
On 08.08.2018 22:10, rjwagner@gmail.com wrote:
I'm running into the infamous issue where with_items isn't skipped if
when
evaluates to false (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13791).
That
said, I'm at loss as to how to workaround my particular issue.
It's not that infamous, it's
Thanks very much, Kai. This does help my understanding. I was trying to
use default() after the b.stdout to generate the JSON (i.e., have default
generate '{ "a": "[]" }') and wasn't having any luck because of all the
nested quotes. I still consider it counterintuitive that Ansible evaluates
On 09.08.2018 15:47, rjwagner@gmail.com wrote:
I still consider it counterintuitive that Ansible evaluates
with_items: even if when: skips it, but no use arguing here.
That's because when is evaluated for each element in with_items, so
with_items must run before when.
Remember that you ca
Ah, yes. Makes sense now. Thanks Kai.
Rob
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