Instead of using add_host, use include_tasks to include a second task file.
In there, iterate over a “split by comma” list and adds hosts.
This gives you the second level of iteration.
Dick
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 08:45, Mohtashim S <mohtash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an ansible play that fetches multiline data from the database and
> registers it a variable "command_result"
>
> command_result variable has has data like below.
>
> host6,host5\targ3
> host4,host3\targ1
>
> host1,host2,host5\targ2
> .....
> .....
>
>
>
> I need to loop through each line of command_result. Pick the host list for
> example host6,host5 and execute shell script using shell module by passing
> respective argument string i.e arg3.
>
> Likewise, the second shell script should run on host4 & host3 and pass
> arg1 to the shell script.
>
> The final shell script hould run on host1, host2 & host5 and pass arg2 to
> the shell script.
>
> - name: Add hosts
> add_host:
> name: "{{ item.split('\t')[0] }}"
> file_dets: "{{ item.split('\t')[1] }}"
>
> ansible_host: localhost
>
> ansible_connection: local
> groups: dest_nodes
> with_items: "{{ command_result.stdout_lines }}"
>
>
> - hosts: dest_nodes
> gather_facts: false
> tasks:
> - debug:
> msg: Run the shell script with the arguments `{{ file_dets }}`
> here"
>
>
> This works fine when there is a single host in item.split('\t')[0]
>
> However, I do not know the approach when there are multiple hosts like
> host6,host5 for {{ item.split('\t')[0] }}
>
>
>
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