Ansible: How to iterate over a role with an array? - ansible

Question

Is it possible to call a role multiple times in a loop like this:
vars:
my_array:
- foo
- bar
- baz
roles:
- role: foobar
with_items: my_array
How can we do this?

Answer 1

Now supported as of Ansible 2.3.0:
- name: myrole
with_items:
- "aone"
- "atwo"
include_role:
name: myrole
vars:
thing: "{{ item }}"

Answer 2

There's no way to loop over a role currently but as mentioned in that Google Group discussion you can pass a list or dict to the role and then loop through that internally.
So instead you could do something like:
# loop_role/tasks/main.yml
- name: debug item
debug: var="{{ item }}"
with_items: my_array
And then use it like this:
- hosts: all
vars:
my_array:
- foo
- bar
- baz
roles:
- { role: loop_role, my_array: "{{ my_array }}" }

Answer 3

I used something like below on Ansible version 2.8
tasks:
- name: looping role to create multiple filesystem
include_role:
name: /opt/ansible/playbook/app_filesystem
vars:
vgname: "{{ item.vgname }}"
lvname: "{{ item.lvname }}"
lvsize: "{{ item.lvsize }}"
mountpoint: "{{ item.mountpoint }}"
loop:
- { vgname: 'vgapp', lvname: 'lvapp', lvsize: '30g', mountpoint: '/app' }
- { vgname: 'vgapp', lvname: 'lvappzk', lvsize: '64g', mountpoint: '/app/z' }
- { vgname: 'vgapp', lvname: 'lvappdatazk', lvsize: '+100%FREE', mountpoint: '/app/data/zookeeper' }
tasks:
- name: looping role to create multiple filesystem
include_role:
name: /opt/ansible/playbook/app_filesystem
vars:
vgname: "{{ item.vgname }}"
lvname: "{{ item.lvname }}"
lvsize: "{{ item.lvsize }}"
mountpoint: "{{ item.mountpoint }}"
loop:
- { vgname: 'vgapp', lvname: 'lvapp', lvsize: '30g', mountpoint: '/app' }
- { vgname: 'vgapp', lvname: 'lvappzk', lvsize: '64g', mountpoint: '/app/zookeeper' }
- { vgname: 'vgapp', lvname: 'lvappdatazk', lvsize: '+100%FREE', mountpoint: '/app/data/zookeeper' }

Answer 4

You can do so using the include_role module. See docs
According to the docs it was introduced in Ansible 2.2 already (not in 2.3 as others have stated).
The code would then look like
- name: Use role in loop
ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: my-role
vars:
some_role_variable: '{{ loop_var }}'
loop:
- '{{ roleinput1 }}'
- '{{ roleinput2 }}'
loop_control:
loop_var: loop_var

Answer 5

Here is a code sample for using include_role looping on my_array:
- name: Use role in loop
include_role:
name: myrole
loop: "{{ my_array }}"