Thank you Matt !
That's definitely what I needed.

There is a lot of useful gems hidden in the footer or subnotes of the 
documentation !

Le mercredi 14 janvier 2015 13:31:56 UTC+1, Matt Martz a écrit :
>
> Take a look at with_indexed_items: 
>
> http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-a-list-with-an-index
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Laurent Goussard <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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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