How do I apply an Ansible with_items loop to the included tasks?

Question

The documentation for import_tasks mentions

Any loops, conditionals and most other keywords will be applied to the included tasks, not to this statem

Answer 1

It is not possible. include/import statements operate with task files as a whole.

So with loops you'll have:

Task 1 with Item 1
Task 2 with Item 1
Task 3 with Item 1
Task 1 with Item 2
Task 2 with Item 2
Task 3 with Item 2
Task 1 with Item 3
Task 2 with Item 3
Task 3 with Item 3