I use ansible a lot for work and for my home lab. I love it. I keep needing an approach that so far has stumped me, so asking here for advice.
I want to create a single file (an icinga2_hosts.conf) which has a separate collection of attributes from each host in my hosts inventory file. I would like to use jinja2 to template one instance and iterate through the hosts building the file in one go; not host by host in the usual ansible approach... although if a single file can be built by that method, I'm all ears. I think I could duplicate the hosts section in the vars section and then iterate the yaml data for the single file with a loop. I could actually create a file for each host and that would actually work in icinga2. But I want it in a single file for future readability and to avoid having to look in each host file for some anomaly. I could give up on ansible for this and use python and jinja2 to pass the hosts inventory file to a jinja2 render function. Is there a way to actually read the hosts inventory in traditional ansible style and iterate it into a single file using jinja2 as the template mechanism? I've wanted to do this in other scenarios but abandoned those attempts. Any tips and tricks appreciated. Chris. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5b0de281-4c29-49f7-bbcf-0fe2ef957b70n%40googlegroups.com.
