- 1 year ago
How do you properly loop through a file for tasks within a block in Ansible?
In Ansible, you can loop through a file for tasks within a block using the with_file
loop. Here's an example:
yaml- name: Loop through a file for tasks
block:
- name: Read file contents
slurp:
src: "{{ item }}"
register: file_contents
with_file:
- file1.txt
- file2.txt
- name: Process file contents
debug:
msg: "{{ item.content | b64decode }}"
with_items: "{{ file_contents.results }}"
In this example, the block
is used to group multiple tasks together. Within the block, the first task (Read file contents
) uses the slurp
module to read the contents of each file specified in the with_file
loop.
The register
keyword is used to store the result of each slurp
task in the file_contents
variable. The results
attribute of the file_contents
variable contains a list of the results for each iteration of the loop.
The second task (Process file contents
) uses the debug
module to display the decoded content of each file. The with_items
loop is used to iterate over the file_contents.results
list and process each file's content.
Ensure that you replace file1.txt
and file2.txt
with the actual file names or paths you want to loop through.
By using this approach, you can loop through a file for tasks within a block in Ansible. The tasks within the block will be executed for each item in the loop, allowing you to process files or perform other operations based on the content of each file.