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BigD_300005
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Feb 09, 2018

Ansible Dynamic node tasks

Is there a way in Ansible to get the node task to spin off multiple times without having to manually create 3 node tasks? I'd like to just have one playbook instead of multiple depending on how many ...
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amintej
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Sep 11, 2018

My playbook for this case is:

 tasks:
- name: ADD NODES 
  bigip_node:
    state: present
    partition: "{{ f5_partition }}"
    server: "{{ f5_server }}"
    user: "{{ f5_user }}"
    password: "{{ f5_pass }}"
    name: "{{ item.f5_node_name }}"
    host: "{{ item.f5_node_host }}"
    validate_certs: no
  delegate_to: localhost
  with_items: "{{ f5_nodes_list }}"

Example for node list:

f5_server: f5host.local
f5_partition: partition1
f5_user: user1
f5_pass: vault
f5_nodes_list:
  - f5_node_name: node-1
    f5_node_host: 1.1.1.3 
  - f5_node_name: node-2
    f5_node_host: 1.1.1.4