community / community.general / 8.5.0 / lookup / cartesian returns the cartesian product of lists Authors: Unknown (!UNKNOWN)community.general.cartesian (8.5.0) — lookup
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==8.5.0
collections: - name: community.general version: 8.5.0
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.
- name: Example of the change in the description ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.cartesian', [1,2,3], [a, b])}}"
- name: loops over the cartesian product of the supplied lists ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "{{item}}" with_community.general.cartesian: - "{{list1}}" - "{{list2}}" - [1,2,3,4,5,6]
_terms: description: - a set of lists elements: list required: true type: list
_list: description: - list of lists composed of elements of the input lists elements: list type: list