One loop over multiple Ansible tasks

Question

I've created an Ansible playbook that creates a cloud instance and then installs some programs on the instance. I want to run this playbook multiple times (without using a bash script). Is it possible to use a loop to loop over those two tasks together (I.E. One loop for two tasks?). All I've been able to find so far is one loop for each individual task

Answer 1

An update:

In 2.0 you are able to use with_ loops and task includes (but not playbook includes), this adds the ability to loop over the set of tasks in one shot. There are a couple of things that you need to keep in mind, a included task that has it’s own with_ loop will overwrite the value of the special item variable. So if you want access to both the include’s item and the current task’s item you should use set_fact to create a alias to the outer one.:

- include_tasks: test.yml 

  with_items:     - 1     - 2     - 3 

in test.yml:

- set_fact: outer_loop="{{item}}" - debug: msg="outer item={{outer_loop}} inner item={{item}}" 

  with_items:     - a     - b     - c 

Source: Ansible Docs