Loop

Loop statements automate repetitive tasks in our Ansible playbook. Computers are better at repeating identical or similar tasks without errors than humans. The repeated execution of a set of statements is called iteration.

Iteration statements in Ansible

Ansible has several statements for iteration. We will focus on the following two statements:

• The loop statement
• The with_items statement

The loop statement

A simple loop iterates a task over a list of items. The loop statement is added to the task and takes the list of items over which the task should be iterated as a value.