Ansible Task Looping Directives

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Looping Directives

with_items

An iterator whose elements can be accessed with item.<element>.

loop

Takes a list for the task to iterate over, saving each list element into the item variable (configurable via loop_control)

jdks:
  - corretto8
  - corretto11
...
- name: Multiple items in a loop
  homebrew_cask:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: present
  loop: "{{ jdks }}"

with_<lookup_plugin>

The same as loop but adds the output of any lookup plugin to generate the item list.