My Playbook looks like this
- set_fact:
vcenter_cluster: "{{ cluster_info.clusters.values[cluster_input.user_input] }}"
- debug:
var: vcenter_cluster
The data in cluster_info.clusters looks like this
ok: [localhost] => {
"cluster_info.clusters": {
"DMZ": {
"datacenter": "dc",
},
"K8S": {
"datacenter": "dc",
},
"Win": {
"datacenter": "dc",
}
}
}
My goal is to set vcenter_cluster to K8S when cluster_input.user_input is 1.
A minimal example playbook
---
- hosts: localhost
become: false
gather_facts: false
vars:
cluster_info:
clusters:
DMZ:
datacenter: dc
K8S:
datacenter: dc
WIN:
datacenter: dc
user_input: 1
tasks:
- name: Show
debug:
msg: "{{ (cluster_info.clusters | list)[user_input] }}"
will result in the requested output of
TASK [Show] ******
ok: [localhost] =>
msg: K8S
Please notice that under certain circumstances there might be a difference in where a list index can start counting with, 0 versus 1. As well that Ansible / Python probably will not maintain the order of the dictionary keys.
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