Ansible Advanced Template Loops Tutorial - Use Loop Vars in Your Templates

"How do I replace vars in the template that change with each loop? For example, what if I want to copy a template for a .gitconfig file for multiple users to each user's home directory?"

Great question! In this tutorial I show you my solution to this problem using the Ansible Template Module with a loop.

- 0:46 -- Playbook & Variables (how I set everything up)
- 1:30 -- Ensure Users Exist
- 3:18 -- Create .gitconfig for Each User (using the loop vars in the template)

Thanks for watching and hope it's entertaining/useful for you! Hit me up in the comments if you have any questions or feedback 💪.

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[NebucadLaVey]

This was exactly i'm looking for - Thx for the great explanation

[jhred]

Really like you tutorials about ansible modules. Why not keep going? I am looking forward to that.

[heavenAndHell]

Very good. There are many videos out there where you partly fall asleep. Your series is to the point, interesting and explains things using expertise.

[hungdiep]

your video is very useful, i watch it to solve the problem that I used to spend a lot of time researching. thank you so

[RAJATRAWAT]

nice and to the point tutorials. I just started with ansible and I was looking for something exactly like this. Thanks for the great work :)

[hamidhamidi]

Thanks-I would like to see some tutorial on ansible Role.

[queenannsrevenge]

Fantastic video series, thank you for sharing! One question for you: I notice you are using a Mac for your environment, but could you share what you are using for your IDE? I have not yet found the perfect IDE for use with Ansible - Being on PC, I typically use Notepad++...

[nardu]

Super series, well explained and concise.

[patriciomartins]

Percy thank you so much for the great content, it helped me a lot.

Sorry for my bad English, not my mother tongue.

[udaymailforu]

@Percy Grunwald from TopTechSkills, your explanation is very clear. i have different set of values to be updated in conf file using templates. example <path, match, index> for tomcat log, <path, match, index> for access log. values are getting overidden in the same conf file. how can i append using the same concept you have explained? Can i use 'blockinfile' along with templates?

[KiranKumar-fokr]

Excellent explaining ....let me know which code writer you are using.

[tamle]

Thank you for the video, I have a question:
If the var list in the video is very long (too many users), can I use jinja template to generate this list and attach this template (without generating a file) to the "vars" section? How can I do that ? Thank you

[samratmitra]

Thanks for the video. Can you also make a video on the uri module?

[matishbhuyan]

Can you please make a video on how to read a csv file data and use the data as a variable to perform certain tasks in loop using ansible

[chandu]

Excellent video. It was amazing. please let us know what is the tool you are using for running and executing the commands.

[avishayhakim]

Hi Percy
I really like your videos very clear and helpful
I have a question that I could not find how to do it - I need to create a dictionary during the playbook run

I need to do a nested loop but this is not working ( i know that there is some keyword called nested_item and also with_subelemental )

I need do have that kind of output

dict:
{
server1: {
server1_int: value
},
server2:{
server2_int: value
}
}


the server name should be a jinja2 parameter.

many thanks :)

[chikkusingh]

Hey, is there a way to achieve round-robin strategy with ansible while deploying different versions of same app to different servers. Lets say
Version 1 deployed to Server 1, Version 2 deployed to Server 2, Version 3 deployed to Server 3 and then Version 4 will be deployed to Server 1 again and the cycle Thanks

[sampathganji]

How do you handle checking if a file exists for multiple users and then create your .gitconfig?

[muhsintawafig]

Bulls Eye .. Very Very to the point ... How to incorporate read_csv module as source of the list/dict variables into a similar loop ?

[shubhampande]

Is there a way to use conditional commands like if else inside of template ?