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Alexander Shcheblikin
Asked: 2020-01-15 05:48:44 +0800 CST

Templated dict keys in ansible YAML

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I am trying to use a dict in an Ansible task, which is defined like this:

in vars/main.yml file:

username: user1
userpass: pass1
users:
  "{{ username }}":
    pass: "{{ userpass }}"

This doesn't work in Ansible 2.9: Ansible seems to not interpolate the value for "{{ username }}"

IIRC this worked fine around Ansible 2.5

What has changed? How should I rewrite my roles and playbooks now?

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1 Answers

  1. The play 

    - hosts: localhost
  vars:
    username: user1
    userpass: pass1
    users: "{{ {username: {'pass': userpass}} }}"
  tasks:
    - debug:
        var: users

    gives:

    "users": {
    "user1": {
        "pass": "pass1"
    }
}

    Is this what you're looking for?

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