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Zama Ques
Zama Ques

Reputation: 1544

Using Ansible loop to create multiple users: Undefined error

I am using the following ansible code to create multiple unix user accounts

---
- hosts: test
  become: true
  tasks:
      - name: more complex items to add several users
        user:
         name: "{{ item.name }}"
         uid: "{{ item.uid }}"
         groups: "{{ item.groups }}"
         state: present
        with_items: "{{ user_details }}"

I am storing the user information by using a separate a variable file as below

cat /etc/ansible/vars.yml
---

user_details:
     - { name: testuser1, uid: 1002, groups: "admin, logs" }
     - { name: testuser2, uid: 1003, groups: logs: }

To execute above playbook , I tried with both the commands below

sudo ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/userloop.yml -e /etc/ansible/vars.yml
sudo ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/userloop.yml

but both commands are failing with below error

 fatal: [host-003]: FAILED! => {"msg": "'user_details' is undefined"}
 fatal: [host-004]: FAILED! => {"msg": "'user_details' is undefined"}

How to resolve the issue ? I want to maintain a separate variable file to store the user information rather then putting them in the same playbook file .

Upvotes: 3

Views: 18028

Answers (3)

Vladimir Botka
Vladimir Botka

Reputation: 68144

The type of variables is in the column "Parameter" of the module user. Try the structure of the data below

    user_details:
      - {name: 'testuser1', uid: 1002, groups: ['admin', 'logs']}
      - {name: 'testuser2', uid: 1003, groups: ['logs']}

Upvotes: 4

SairamS
SairamS

Reputation: 41

You can also refer the multiple variable files in playbooks like below

- hosts: all
  become: true
  vars_files:
      - /etc/ansible/vars.yml
  tasks:
      - name: more complex items to add several users
        user:
         name: "{{ item.name }}"
         uid: "{{ item.uid }}"
         groups: "{{ item.groups }}"
         state: present
        with_items: "{{ user_details }}"

Upvotes: 4

Sriram
Sriram

Reputation: 674

You are missing @ while passing the vars.yml. Hence, the ansible is not reading the file. Try the below command. It works for me.

sudo ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/userloop.yml -e @/etc/ansible/vars.yml

Upvotes: 1

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