I have a playbook and I want to define a list of strings in my hosts file.
Here's my host file:
[dashboard]
1.2.3.4 dashboard_domain=test site_domain=['one','two','foo', 'bar']
Here's my playbook that I attempted to write using the list documentation:
---
- hosts: dashboard
gather_facts: False
remote_user: ubuntu
become: yes
tasks:
- name: ping
ping:
- debug:
msg: "Domain: {{dashboard_domain}}"
- debug:
msg: "Site: {{ item }}"
with_items: "{{site_domain}}"
However running this playbook with ansible-playbook -i hosts ping.yml
causes this error:
TASK: [debug ] ****************************************************************
fatal: [1.2.3.4] => with_items expects a list or a set
This seems to be an issue of transferring the defined list from the host file to the playbook because defining the list directly in the playbook works:
---
- hosts: dashboard
gather_facts: False
remote_user: ubuntu
become: yes
vars:
site_domain: ['one','two','foo', 'bar']
tasks:
#### APPLY HTTP-AUTH ####
- name: ping
ping:
- debug:
msg: "Domain: {{dashboard_domain}}"
- debug:
msg: "Site: {{ item }}"
with_items: "{{site_domain}}"