How to assign an array to a variable in an Ansible-Playbook

Question

In a playbook I got the following code:

---
- hosts: db
  vars:
    postgresql_ext_install_contrib: yes
    postgresql_pg_hba_passwd_hosts: [\'10.129.181.241         


        

Answer 1

in playbook:

vars:
     - arrayname:
        - name: itemname
          value1: itemvalue1
          value2: itemvalue2
        - name: otheritem
          value1: itemvalue3
          value2: itemvalue4

in template: (example is of type ini file, with sections, keys and values):

{% for item in arrayname %}
[{{ item.name }}]
key1 = {{ item.value1 }}
key2 = {{ item.value2 }}
{% endfor %}

This should render the template as:

[itemname]
key1 = itemvalue1
key2 = itemvalue2
[otheritem]
key1 = itemvalue3
key2 = itemvalue4