ansible.builtin.cartesian (v2.9.27) — lookup

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27

Description

Takes the input lists and returns a list that represents the product of the input lists.

It is clearer with an example, it turns [1, 2, 3], [a, b] into [1, a], [1, b], [2, a], [2, b], [3, a], [3, b]. You can see the exact syntax in the examples section.

Usage examples

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- name: Example of the change in the description
  debug: msg="{{ [1,2,3]|lookup('cartesian', [a, b])}}"

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- name: loops over the cartesian product of the supplied lists
  debug: msg="{{item}}"
  with_cartesian:
    - "{{list1}}"
    - "{{list2}}"
    - [1,2,3,4,5,6]

Inputs

    
_raw:
    description:
    - a set of lists
    required: true

Outputs

_list:
  description:
  - list of lists composed of elements of the input lists
  type: lists