In similar case A workaround I used is to add 1 to your sequence count
see
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/label%3Aansible+with_sequence/1435e13b34e3a0e1
Phil
2014-04-30 23:51 GMT+02:00 kesten broughton kesten.brough...@gmail.com:
The error is
fatal: [localhost] = can't count backwards
Phil, the link doesn't work for me.
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:32:23 AM UTC-5, Philippe Eveque wrote:
In similar case A workaround I used is to add 1 to your sequence count
see
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/label%3Aansible+with_sequence/1435e13b34e3a0e1
Phil
2014-04-30 23:51
The link references a previous exchange similar to yours
The specific case was about using the lineinfile module and with_sequence
to add a parameter to all the kernel liles in grub.conf
here is a copy of what I wrote:
tasks 1: count the number of lines to replace (via shell module using and
ah, thanks phillippe.
I think in my case this won't work since i DO care about doing it one more
time.
The thing i'm doing is creating vms. But i don't want to create 1 more if
i already have my desired N.
k
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Philippe Eveque
philippe.eve...@gmail.comwrote:
The
So it seems easiest to just make it so it can create zero length lists.
Please make sure there's a github ticket and this can be dealt with.
Tickets go here: github.com/ansible/ansible
(Fix pull requests are even better)
Thanks!
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Philippe Eveque
I recently had a need for with_sequence, but it doesn't seem possible to do
a zero count of actions.
Suppose i have a local action to create N things, perhaps vms or floating
ips. Some number M N may already be present.
I'd like to do
hosts: localhost
vars:
expected_foo_count: 10
- name:
You are throwing two words together that have nothing to do with each other.
with_sequence is a loop.
Idempotency is a mathematical statement that says F(X) = F(F(X)) for how
many times X is applied.
This will work if M is strictly less than N, but if M=N (the idempotent
case) then ansible
The error is
fatal: [localhost] = can't count backwards
This occurs whenever count=0 or start=M end=M
If with_sequence is used for the purpose of bringing a system to a state =
HAS N of something
then there should be a way of running the playbook twice and not having
anything new created.
