How to get all indices of output array in Ansible - ansible

Question

I'm gathering info on SSL certs on servers (looking for expiration date) using the find module.
- name: Find certs on server
find:
path: /etc/ssl/custom/certs
file_type: file
patterns: "*.crt"
recurse: yes
register: find_result
- debug:
var: find_result
The results are:
ok: [server00] => {
"find_result": {
"changed": false,
"examined": 5,
"failed": false,
"files": [
{
"atime": 1622749788.1552677,
"ctime": 1622744497.4393551,
"dev": 2050,
"gid": 0,
"gr_name": "root",
"inode": 19531534,
"isblk": false,
"ischr": false,
"isdir": false,
"isfifo": false,
"isgid": false,
"islnk": false,
"isreg": true,
"issock": false,
"isuid": false,
"mode": "0644",
"mtime": 1622744497.4393551,
"nlink": 1,
"path": "/etc/ssl/custom/certs/somewebsite0.com.crt",
"pw_name": "root",
"rgrp": true,
"roth": true,
"rusr": true,
"size": 1879,
"uid": 0,
"wgrp": false,
"woth": false,
"wusr": true,
"xgrp": false,
"xoth": false,
"xusr": false
},
{
"atime": 1622719627.2477663,
"ctime": 1616545902.3681087,
"dev": 2050,
"gid": 0,
"gr_name": "root",
"inode": 19531253,
"isblk": false,
"ischr": false,
"isdir": false,
"isfifo": false,
"isgid": false,
"islnk": false,
"isreg": true,
"issock": false,
"isuid": false,
"mode": "0644",
"mtime": 1613754568.0,
"nlink": 1,
"path": "/etc/ssl/custom/certs/somewebsite1.com.crt",
"pw_name": "root",
"rgrp": true,
"roth": true,
"rusr": true,
"size": 2081,
"uid": 0,
"wgrp": false,
"woth": false,
"wusr": true,
"xgrp": false,
"xoth": false,
"xusr": false
},
{
"atime": 1622719627.2197664,
"ctime": 1616545902.3721087,
"dev": 2050,
"gid": 0,
"gr_name": "root",
"inode": 19535012,
"isblk": false,
"ischr": false,
"isdir": false,
"isfifo": false,
"isgid": false,
"islnk": false,
"isreg": true,
"issock": false,
"isuid": false,
"mode": "0644",
"mtime": 1601653231.0,
"nlink": 1,
"path": "/etc/ssl/custom/certs/somewebsite2.com.crt",
"pw_name": "root",
"rgrp": true,
"roth": true,
"rusr": true,
"size": 2269,
"uid": 0,
"wgrp": false,
"woth": false,
"wusr": true,
"xgrp": false,
"xoth": false,
"xusr": false
}
],
"matched": 3,
"msg": ""
}
}
I'm needing the path portion of the output ("path": "/etc/ssl/custom/certs/somewebsite1.com.crt"), and if I use find_result.files[0].path it only gives me a single result for each host, when I need every *.crt file.
How can I access each index? I try to use the shell module to perform an action on the .crt file, but again, it's only grabbing the first one due to the [0] index, like so:
- name: Check expiration
shell: "cat {{ find_result.files[0].path }} | openssl x509 -noout -enddate"
register: date
- debug:
var: date.stdout_lines
ok: [server00] => {
"date.stdout_lines": [
"notAfter=Apr 2 19:50:38 2018 GMT"
]
}

Answer 1

Here would be an example playbook based on it:
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Find certs on server
find:
path: /etc/ssl/custom/certs
file_type: file
patterns: "*.crt"
recurse: yes
register: find_result
- debug:
var: find_result
- name: Play with the data just to demonstrate
set_fact:
IRGeekSauce_list: "{{ (IRGeekSauce_list|default([])) + [item.path] }}"# <-- add each list item to a custom list
with_items: '{{ find_result.files }}' # <-- here we get the files as a list.
- name: your list
debug:
msg: '{{ IRGeekSauce_list }}'
- include_tasks: anothertasklist.yml
loop: '{{ IRGeekSauce_list }}'
loop_control:
loop_var: singlepathvariable
And then you have another "playbook" with just the tasks 'anothertasklist.yml'
- name: hello
debug:
msg: 'You are now in another playbook'
- name:
debug:
msg: 'Woho: {{ singlepathvariable }}'
- name:
openssl_certificate_info:
howeverthatmoduleworks...
And you should be able to just take the entire and include find_result.files as the loop, and then instead just use the loopvar singlepathvariable(and maybe rename it) and just take out the path as {{ singlepathvariable.path }}