nested¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version 1.1.

Synopsis¶

Takes the input lists and returns a list with elements that are lists composed of the elements of the input lists

Parameters¶

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_raw required		a set of lists

Examples¶

- name: give users access to multiple databases
  community.mysql.mysql_user:
    name: "{{ item[0] }}"
    priv: "{{ item[1] }}.*:ALL"
    append_privs: yes
    password: "foo"
  with_nested:
    - [ 'alice', 'bob' ]
    - [ 'clientdb', 'employeedb', 'providerdb' ]
# As with the case of 'with_items' above, you can use previously defined variables.:

- name: here, 'users' contains the above list of employees
  community.mysql.mysql_user:
    name: "{{ item[0] }}"
    priv: "{{ item[1] }}.*:ALL"
    append_privs: yes
    password: "foo"
  with_nested:
    - "{{ users }}"
    - [ 'clientdb', 'employeedb', 'providerdb' ]

Return Values¶

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_list	list	A list composed of lists paring the elements of the input lists