community.general.dependent – Composes a list with nested elements of other lists or dicts which can depend on previous loop variables

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Takes the input lists and returns a list with elements that are lists, dictionaries, or template expressions which evaluate to lists or dicts, composed of the elements of the input evaluated lists and dictionaries.

Parameters

Examples

- name: Install/remove public keys for active admin users
  ansible.posix.authorized_key:
    user: "{{ item.admin.key }}"
    key: "{{ lookup('file', item.key.public_key) }}"
    state: "{{ 'present' if item.key.active else 'absent' }}"
  when: item.admin.value.active
  with_community.general.dependent:
    - admin: admin_user_data
    - key: admin_ssh_keys[item.admin.key]
  loop_control:
    # Makes the output readable, so that it doesn't contain the whole subdictionaries and lists
    label: "{{ [item.admin.key, 'active' if item.key.active else 'inactive', item.key.public_key] }}"
  vars:
    admin_user_data:
      admin1:
        name: Alice
        active: true
      admin2:
        name: Bob
        active: true
    admin_ssh_keys:
      admin1:
        - private_key: keys/private_key_admin1.pem
          public_key: keys/private_key_admin1.pub
          active: true
      admin2:
        - private_key: keys/private_key_admin2.pem
          public_key: keys/private_key_admin2.pub
          active: true
        - private_key: keys/private_key_admin2-old.pem
          public_key: keys/private_key_admin2-old.pub
          active: false

- name: Update DNS records
  community.aws.route53:
    zone: "{{ item.zone.key }}"
    record: "{{ item.prefix.key ~ '.' if item.prefix.key else '' }}{{ item.zone.key }}"
    type: "{{ item.entry.key }}"
    ttl: "{{ item.entry.value.ttl | default(3600) }}"
    value: "{{ item.entry.value.value }}"
    state: "{{ 'absent' if (item.entry.value.absent | default(False)) else 'present' }}"
    overwrite: true
  loop_control:
    # Makes the output readable, so that it doesn't contain the whole subdictionaries and lists
    label: |-
        {{ [item.zone.key, item.prefix.key, item.entry.key,
            item.entry.value.ttl | default(3600),
            item.entry.value.absent | default(False), item.entry.value.value] }}
  with_community.general.dependent:
    - zone: dns_setup
    - prefix: item.zone.value
    - entry: item.prefix.value
  vars:
    dns_setup:
      example.com:
        '':
          A:
            value:
            - 1.2.3.4
          AAAA:
            value:
            - "2a01:1:2:3::1"
        'test._domainkey':
          TXT:
            ttl: 300
            value:
            - '"k=rsa; t=s; p=MIGfMA..."'
      example.org:
        'www':
          A:
            value:
            - 1.2.3.4
            - 5.6.7.8

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Authors

• Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)