How do I populate Ansible variables in a single pass

Question

I have a simple Ansible role which creates a Foreman activation key, however it only "subscriptions" with the last value and not both?

# cat roles/hammer/tasks/subscription.yml --- - name: Add Subscription key ID to Activation Key katello_activation_key: username: "{{ hammer.username|default('NotSet') }}" password: "{{ hammer.password|default('NotSet') }}" server_url: "https://{{ system_host_name }}" name: "{{ item.0.name }}" organization: "{{ hammer.organisation.name }}" lifecycle_environment: "{{ item.0.lifecycle }}" content_view: '{{ item.0.cview }}' subscriptions: - name: "{{ item.1 }}" # - name: "{{ item.1.name2 }}" auto_attach: False release_version: Initial tags: hammer ... 

My vars file contains:

act_key: - name: CentOS 7 content Development Key desc: CentOS 7 content Development Key release: Initial cview: CentOS 7 content lifecycle: Development # subscription: ['CentOS-7','CentOS-7-EPEL'] subscription: - CentOS-7 - CentOS-7-EPEL - name: CentOS 7 content Production Key desc: CentOS 7 content Production Key cview: CentOS 7 content release: Initial lifecycle: Production # subscription: ['CentOS-7','CentOS-7-EPEL'] subscription: - CentOS-7 - CentOS-7-EPEL - name: CentOS 8 content Development Key desc: CentOS 8 content Development Key cview: CentOS 8 content release: Initial lifecycle: Development # subscription: ['CentOS-8','CentOS-8-EPEL'] subscription: - CentOS-8 - CentOS-8-EPEL - name: CentOS 8 content Production Key desc: CentOS 8 content Production Key cview: CentOS 8 content release: Initial lifecycle: Production # subscription: ['CentOS-8','CentOS-8-EPEL'] subscription: - CentOS-8 - CentOS-8-EPEL 

I am trying to to add " subscription: ['CentOS-7','CentOS-7-EPEL']" in a single pass as if I use the "with_subelements" loop only the last item "CentOS-7-EPEL" or "CentOS-8-EPEL" is added (and not both).

Can anyone suggest a way to change my variables file or play to make the katello_activation_key add both variables in a single pass?

Answer 1

First the list of dictionaries in act_key contains a key subscription and that value is a list. So you don't need to iterate over multiple lists

- name: Add Subscription key ID to Activation Key katello_activation_key: .. name: "{{ item.name }}" organization: "{{ hammer.organisation.name }}" lifecycle_environment: "{{ item.lifecycle }}" content_view: '{{ item.cview }}' subscriptions: "{{ item.subscription }}" ... loop: "{{ act_key }}" 

Second - the katello_activation_key.subscriptions doesn't allow a string list (but also a list of dict with a single key name) - so you can use dict or items2dict to create a map/dict of the list of the names. But I would prefer to change the act_key for better reading to contain the same format in subscription, then ´katello_activation_key` needs.