Ansible loops

Ansible provides a number of loops in the playbook, such as standard loops, looping over files, subelements, do-until, and many more. In this section, we will look at two of the most commonly used loop forms: standard loops and looping over hash values.

Standard loops

Standard loops in playbooks are often used to easily perform similar tasks multiple times. The syntax for standard loops is very easy: the {{ item }} variable is the placeholder looping over the with_items list. For example, take a look at the following section in the chapter8_4.yml playbook:

      tasks:
        - name: echo loop items
          command: echo {{ item }}
          with_items: ['r1', 'r2', 'r3', 'r4', 'r5']   

It will loop over the five list items with the same echo command:

TASK [echo loop items] *********************************************************
changed: [192.168.199.185] => (item=r1)
changed: [192.168.199.185] => (item=r2)
changed: [192.168.199.185] => (item=r3)
changed: [192.168...