ansible with_items list of lists is flattening

Question

I\'m trying to use ansible to loop over a list of lists to install some packages. But {{item}} is returning every element in the sub lists rather than the sublist itself.

Answer 1

Replace with_items: "{{ modules }}" with:

• in Ansible 2.5 and later (refer to with_list porting guide):

  loop: "{{ modules }}"
  

• in Ansible 2.0 and later:

  with_list: "{{ modules }}"
  

• in any Ansible pre-2.0:

  with_items:
    - "{{ modules }}"
  

  This way you'd have three levels of nested lists, and the default behaviour flattens only two of them.