Thanks, but as I said, I tried to loop over the group list, but I cannot
get any iteration key.
I try to loop over a hosts group and getting an index of the current
iteration in order to set a cron task at midnight for the first host, 01am
for the second, 02am for the third, etc...
Le mardi 13 janvier 2015 20:47:22 UTC+1, Dan Vaida a écrit :
>
> to iterate over a hosts group you need with_items: groups['mysql'] instead
> of with_dict
>
> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 09:41:07 UTC+1, Laurent Goussard wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I try to setup a cron task using ansible (indeed) on my db slave pool.
>> This cron task is supposed to stop the replication process, dump the
>> database and restart replication.
>> Because the backup takes a little time, I don't want to init the cron
>> task at the same time on all the db slaves and I don't want to stop all the
>> slaves at the same times either.
>>
>> My first idea was to set a different time while looping on the group.
>> But it's definitely not as trivial as it seems :
>>
>> - name: database backup cron task
>> cron: name="database backup" hour={{ item.key }} user="root" job=
>> "backup_db.sh" cron_file=database_backup
>> with_dict: groups.mysql
>>
>> The point is an inventory group is a list, not a dictionnary and I cannot
>> find any simple way to convert a list to a dict (whereas it's easy to
>> convert a dict as a list)
>> I also tried to use the group list instead, but I cannot figure out how I
>> can get an iterator key.
>>
>> Did I miss something ? Do you have any clue regarding my (not so complex
>> imho) problem ?
>>
>
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