It's not really intended that you can mix static groups and dynamic groups like this.
Each inventory source is mostly it's own thing. You would probably want to amend your inventory script so that the hosts came back in more groups as presently implemented. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Juergen Brendel <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hello! > > I don't seem to be able to iterate over the hosts of a group of groups > within a template. > > My inventory file looks similar to this: > > [group1] > > [group2] > > [group3:children] > group1 > group2 > > The groups "group1" and "group2" are initially left empty. However, they > are populated with dynamically created EC2 instances by some playbook. > > Later on, I have some tasks, which are just for hosts in group3: > > hosts: group3 > tasks: > - ... > > This works as expected, so I know that Ansible knows what group3 is and > what it consists of. > > However, when I try to iterate over the hosts of group3 from within a > template (in some other tasks), it does not work: > > # Some template file > {% for host in groups['group1'] %} this works {% endfor %} > {% for host in groups['group2'] %} this works {% endfor %} > {% for host in groups['group3'] %} this does NOT work {% endfor %} > > By "not working" I mean: The template engine seems to think that the > group3 is just empty. > > Is that as intended? Is it a bug? Or am I just doing something wrong? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... > > Thank you very much! > > Juergen > > > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1397013860.5876.33.camel%40localhost > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEVJ8QNE%3DGQgYsixnhZC6S4d7TZ1j5N%2Bu70Fqscid8GEz41RXA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
