ansible: using with_items with notify handler

Question

I want to pass a variable to a notification handler, but can\'t find anywhere be it here on SO, the docs or the issues in the github repo, how to do it. What I\'m doing is d

Answer 1

I finally solved it by splitting the apps out over multiple instances of the same role. This way, the handler in the role can refer to variables that are defined as role variable.

In site.yml:

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
  - role: something
    name: a
  - role: something
    name: b

In roles/something/tasks/main.yml:

- name: do something
  shell: "echo {{ name }}"
  notify: something happened

- name: do something else
  shell: "echo {{ name }}"
  notify: something happened

In roles/something/handlers/main.yml:

- name: something happened
  debug:
    msg: "{{ name }}"

Seems a lot less hackish than the first solution!