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PG0581
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Aug 29, 2018

Ansible - Looping vars_prompt question to create LTM pool

I'm trying to create a playbook to create a pool, and the variables of the pool configuration are provided by the user.

I have it working configuring just one pool member, but in most cases, there are multiple pool members. Any ideas on how I could loop the below question, and exit the loop once the user has entered all of the pool members? 

   - name: "pool_member"
      prompt: "Enter the pool member IP and port [enter as IP:Port]"
      private: no
    - name: "pool_address"
      prompt: "Enter the pool member address"

Also, once all of the user's input has been collected, how would you then pass it into the implementation? Here's what I have so far for that section:

 - name: Implementation
    bigip_command:
      server: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      user: "{{ remote_username }}"
      password: "{{ remote_passwd }}"
      commands:
        - "tmsh create ltm pool {{ pool_name }} { load-balancing-mode {{ pool_lb_mode }} members add { {{ pool_member }} { address {{ pool_address }} } } monitor {{ pool_monitor }} }"
      validate_certs: no
    delegate_to: localhost
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  • amintej's avatar
    amintej
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    Sep 05, 2018

    Hello,

    One questions, why are not using the module bigip_pool_member?

    - name: ADD POOL MEMBER 
  bigip_pool_member:
    state: present
    server: "{{ f5_server }}"
    user: "{{ f5_user }}"
    password: "{{ f5_pass }}"
    partition: "{{ f5_partition }}"
    pool: "{{ f5_pool_name }}"
    host: "{{ item.f5_node_host }}"
    name: "{{ item.f5_node_name }}"
    port: "{{ f5_pool_port }}"
    validate_certs: no
  delegate_to: localhost
  with_items: "{{ f5_nodes_list }}"

    You can use "with items" for looping and define a list with the nodes, example fo f5_nodes_list:

    f5_nodes_list:
  - f5_node_name: test_ansible-1
    f5_node_host: 1.1.1.3
  - f5_node_name: test_ansible-2
    f5_node_host: 1.1.1.4