amazon web services - How to loop ansible variables -

i have below yml file working expected

--- - hosts: local - name: example of provisioning servers hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local tasks: - name: modify security group   local_action:     module: ec2_group     name: ansible_trail     description: modify sg rules     region: us-east-1     rules:       - proto: tcp         from_port: 22         to_port: 22         cidr_ip: 198.168.45.23     purge_rules: true* 

i want repeat same action of security groups how in ansible .

instead of assigning name: optv5_ansible_trail want value list or file.

i'm not clear on you're asking, i'll give shot. want use with_items: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html#standard-loops

i'll take stab , might want this:

tasks:   - name: modify security group     local_action:       module: ec2_group       name: "{{ item }}"       description: modify sg rules       region: us-east-1       rules:         - proto: tcp           from_port: 22           to_port: 22           cidr_ip: 198.168.45.23       purge_rules: true*     with_items: "{{ security_groups }}" 

where security_groups list of names of security groups. call local_action task 1 time each item in security_groups list, item current item in iteration.

you can use more complex data structures , access them dot notation (e.g. item.name, if security_groups list of dictionaries had key name).