On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 08:20, Chris Jefferies <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > What do you mean by this? Can you give an example? 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5b0de281-4c29-49f7-bbcf-0fe2ef957b70n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from a mobile device - please excuse the brevity, spelling and punctuation. -- 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/CAL8fbwP24cUzeMoo%2Bk55G_Mm1JWrVo6D39JC%3DuJ%2BQvBbxWJAnw%40mail.gmail.com.
