Hello Rob, maybe http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-a-list-with-an-index might help.
Regards Mirko Regards Mirko -- http://illegalstateexception.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/mfriedenhagen/ (http://osrc.dfm.io/mfriedenhagen) https://bitbucket.org/mfriedenhagen/ On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Rob White <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure this must've come up before but I couldn't find an answer. > > I have a list of hosts in a group. I want to write an index number on each > of those hosts in a file. E.g. the first host has a file that contains 1, > the second host has a file that contains 2 etc. > > Now I know I can access the hosts using the groups variable E.g. > groups["mygroup"] but i can't find any reference to an index so the host can > find out which number it is. > > Example play > > ... > > - name: Add instance to new host group > > add_host: > > name: "{{ item }}" > > group: zk > > with_items: > > - server1 > > - server2 > > - server3 > > > - name: deploy to zk group > > hosts: zk > > tasks: > > - name: write a myid file based on the position in the group > > copy: > > content: {{ some_magic_variable?????? }} > > dest: /zookeeper-data/myid > > > > In the above server i would expect to end up with three servers each with a > myid file that contains 0, 1 or 2 > > > Anyone know if that magic variable exists? > > -- > 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/c3dec262-b1b5-414f-88ba-c326d4ccd93e%40googlegroups.com. > 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/CAK8jvqyQgR_9r_zUwxR6Jtv3zTz1%2B66ReQX%3DZmRS_VEUbfZsGQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
