How to loop over this dictionary in Ansible?

Question

Say I have this dictionary

war_files:
  server1:
  - file1.war
  - file2.war
  server2:
  - file1.war
  - file2.war
  - file3.war

and for n

Answer 1

dict2items

I found myself wanting to iterate over a heterogeneous set of keys and their associated values and use the key-value pair in a task. The dict2items filter is the least painful way I've found. You can find dict2items in Ansible 2.6

Example Dict

systemsetup:
  remotelogin: "On"
  timezone: "Europe/Oslo"
  usingnetworktime: "On"
  sleep: 0
  computersleep: 0
  displaysleep: 0
  harddisksleep: 0
  allowpowerbuttontosleepcomputer: "Off"
  wakeonnetworkaccess: "On"
  restartfreeze: "On"
  restartpowerfailure: "On"

Example Task

---
- debug:
    msg: "KEY: {{ item.key }}, VALUE: {{ item.value }}"
  loop: "{{ systemsetup | dict2items }}"