when works fine with with_items. It is evaluated once per item.
This syntax "with_items: groups['dbservers'][1::]" is however, entirely invalid. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Evie Kassela <[email protected]> wrote: > I have this task in a play for group 'dbservers': > > name: test > debug: msg='{{ is_master }}' > sudo: true > sudo_user: postgres > when: is_master > with_items: groups['dbservers'][1::] > > I wrote this because I wanted only master ( which is > groups['dbservers'][0] with hostname 'pgserver-1' ) to show the message for > every slave. > > is_master is evaluated before based on the hostname. > > With 1 master and 1 slave it doesn't work: > > TASK: [database | test] > ******************************************************* > <....> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: root > <....> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: root > ok: [pgserver-2] => (item=pgserver-2) => { > "item": "pgserver-2", > "msg": "False" > } > ok: [pgserver-1] => (item=pgserver-2) => { > "item": "pgserver-2", > "msg": "True" > } > > The first message shouldn't be shown but be skipped. It's like 'when' > isn't working but is_master is correctly evaluated. what am I doing wrong? > > -- > 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/ba7edb61-9699-4199-ab0d-9e7f7303f165%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ba7edb61-9699-4199-ab0d-9e7f7303f165%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CA%2BnsWgw0Cehvs_CMuWGYX7CMFwyirgmzGu6b6CY4Gv2EsSe4jw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
