community.general.dependent lookup – Composes a list with nested elements of other lists or dicts which can depend on previous loop variables

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.7).

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.dependent.

New in community.general 3.1.0

Synopsis

  • Takes the input lists and returns a list with elements that are lists, dictionaries, or template expressions which evaluate to lists or dicts, composed of the elements of the input evaluated lists and dictionaries.

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

list / elements=dictionary / required

A list where the elements are one-element dictionaries, mapping a name to a string, list, or dictionary. The name is the index that is used in the result object. The value is iterated over as described below.

If the value is a list, it is simply iterated over.

If the value is a dictionary, it is iterated over and returned as if they would be processed by the ansible.builtin.dict2items filter.

If the value is a string, it is evaluated as Jinja2 expressions which can access the previously chosen elements with item.<index_name>. The result must be a list or a dictionary.

Examples

- name: Install/remove public keys for active admin users
  ansible.posix.authorized_key:
    user: "{{ item.admin.key }}"
    key: "{{ lookup('file', item.key.public_key) }}"
    state: "{{ 'present' if item.key.active else 'absent' }}"
  when: item.admin.value.active
  with_community.general.dependent:
    - admin: admin_user_data
    - key: admin_ssh_keys[item.admin.key]
  loop_control:
    # Makes the output readable, so that it doesn't contain the whole subdictionaries and lists
    label: "{{ [item.admin.key, 'active' if item.key.active else 'inactive', item.key.public_key] }}"
  vars:
    admin_user_data:
      admin1:
        name: Alice
        active: true
      admin2:
        name: Bob
        active: true
    admin_ssh_keys:
      admin1:
        - private_key: keys/private_key_admin1.pem
          public_key: keys/private_key_admin1.pub
          active: true
      admin2:
        - private_key: keys/private_key_admin2.pem
          public_key: keys/private_key_admin2.pub
          active: true
        - private_key: keys/private_key_admin2-old.pem
          public_key: keys/private_key_admin2-old.pub
          active: false

- name: Update DNS records
  community.aws.route53:
    zone: "{{ item.zone.key }}"
    record: "{{ item.prefix.key ~ '.' if item.prefix.key else '' }}{{ item.zone.key }}"
    type: "{{ item.entry.key }}"
    ttl: "{{ item.entry.value.ttl | default(3600) }}"
    value: "{{ item.entry.value.value }}"
    state: "{{ 'absent' if (item.entry.value.absent | default(False)) else 'present' }}"
    overwrite: true
  loop_control:
    # Makes the output readable, so that it doesn't contain the whole subdictionaries and lists
    label: |-
        {{ [item.zone.key, item.prefix.key, item.entry.key,
            item.entry.value.ttl | default(3600),
            item.entry.value.absent | default(False), item.entry.value.value] }}
  with_community.general.dependent:
    - zone: dns_setup
    - prefix: item.zone.value
    - entry: item.prefix.value
  vars:
    dns_setup:
      example.com:
        '':
          A:
            value:
            - 1.2.3.4
          AAAA:
            value:
            - "2a01:1:2:3::1"
        'test._domainkey':
          TXT:
            ttl: 300
            value:
            - '"k=rsa; t=s; p=MIGfMA..."'
      example.org:
        'www':
          A:
            value:
            - 1.2.3.4
            - 5.6.7.8

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

list / elements=dictionary

A list composed of dictionaries whose keys are the variable names from the input list.

Returned: success

Sample: [{"key1": "a", "key2": "test"}, {"key1": "a", "key2": "foo"}, {"key1": "b", "key2": "bar"}]

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)

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.