On 9/8/20 1:13 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello guys, > > I have the following problem: > I'm reading a simple json file which contains some names of my hosts. > The file looks like this: > { "redundancynode": "node4", "service": "dhcp", "servicenode" "node1" } > > Now i have a task to read the contents of that file: > > vars: > file_content: "{{ lookup('file', '/tmp/info') }} > > tasks: > - name: Read from local file /tmp/info > debug: > msg: "{{ file_content }}" > > The Output of Ansible for that file looks like this: > > ok: [127.0.0.1] => { > "msg": { > "redundancynode": "node4", > "service": "dhcp", > "servicenode": "node1" > } > } > I used set_fact to get the actual nodes for servicenode and redundancynode: > > - set_fact: redundancynode="{{output.msg.redundancynode}}" > > - set_fact: servicenode="{{ output.msg.servicenode }}" > > debggung for example redundancynode gives me as expected the following output: > > ok: [127.0.0.1] => { > "msg": "node4" > } > > Now, I want to use the content of "redundancy node", which is "node4" in > another task as condition: > when: inventory_hostname == "redundanynode" > > But this does not work. It just skips the task for all nodes. > > (BTW: node4 does exist in my inventory file of course) > > What am I missing? Im searching for a solution since hours.
1. you have a typo in the when statement
2. putting the variable name in "" makes it a literal string, so it evaluates
to redundanynode
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Racke
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