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

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

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.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following examples: lookup('community.general.cartesian', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.general.cartesian', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

_raw

string / 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

  • Unknown

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.