ansible.builtin.nested lookup – composes a list with nested elements of other lists

Synopsis

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

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following examples: lookup('ansible.builtin.nested', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('ansible.builtin.nested', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

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 Value