community.general.cartesian lookup – returns the cartesian product of lists

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cartesian.

Synopsis

  • Takes the input lists and returns a list that represents the product of the input lists.

  • It is clearer with an example, it turns [1, 2, 3], [a, b] into [1, a], [1, b], [2, a], [2, b], [3, a], [3, b].

  • You can see the exact syntax in the examples section.

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

list / elements=list / required

A set of lists.

Examples

- name: Example of the change in the description
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.cartesian', [1,2,3], [a, b])}}"

- name: loops over the cartesian product of the supplied lists
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{item}}"
  with_community.general.cartesian:
    - "{{list1}}"
    - "{{list2}}"
    - [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

list / elements=list

List of lists composed of elements of the input lists.

Returned: success

Authors

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