WOW!
That worked SLICK! And thank you for the much better example, that is very
readable but I had a hell of a time finding anything like that on google.
OK, so you mentions jinja... I have heard this term and I hear it is
something I need to learn as well... what might this look like using jinja,
if you have time? (I have a working file now, thank you very much!)
On Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 11:18:21 AM UTC-8, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 24 November 2018 20:10:19 CET Nick Ellson wrote:
> >
> > I have a task that I am scratching my head on, and my google foo is just
> > getting some really basic examples of the COPY - CONTENT method of
> writing
> > a file.
> >
> > my variable returned from the URI module is data, which is a 4 variable
> > JSON array. data.json.devices is the list I want to dump to a file to
> use
> > as my future hosts file for cli config operations.
> >
> > ok: [localhost] => {
> > "msg": [
> > {
> > "hostname": "host1",
> > "id": "0093253e",
> > "mgmtIP": "10.10.10.1"
> > },
> > {
> > "hostname": "host2",
> > "id": "00e75962",
> > "mgmtIP": "10.10.10.8"
> > },
> > <snip the other 378 entries in list>
> >
> > I'd like to spit this to a ./inventory/hosts file in a format that my
> > playbook can then use in the next set of tasks. So just the "hostname"
> and
> > "mgmtIP" variables written to a line.
> >
> > How might that look?
>
> You can use the template or the copy module, the jinja template code is
> the same in both so i just show the copy module
>
> - name: Create inventory
> copy:
> content: |
> {% for i in data.json.devices %}
> {{ i.hostname }} ansible_host={{ i.mgmtIP }}
> {% endfor %}
> dest: inventory/hosts
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
>
>
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