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

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 }}" }