A couple of days ago a client asked me if I could solve the following problem:
They have a large number of web servers, all running a plethora of PHP versions. These machines are locally managed with DirectAdmin, which manages the PHP configuration files as well. They are also running Ansible for all kind of configuration tasks. What they want is a simple playbook that ensures a certain line in all PHP
inifiles for all PHP versions on all webservers.All the PHP directories match the pattern
/etc/php[0-9][0-9].d.
Thinking about this, I came up with this solution (took me some time, though) :-)
---
- name: find all ini files in all /etc/php directories
hosts: webservers
user: ansible
become: True
become_user: root
tasks:
- name: get php directories
find:
file_type: directory
paths:
- /etc
patterns:
- php[0-9][0-9].d
register: dirs
- name: get files in php directories
find:
paths:
- "{{ item.path }}"
patterns:
- "*.ini"
loop: "{{ dirs.files }}"
register: phpfiles
- name: show all found files
debug:
msg: "Files is {{ item.1.path }}"
with_subelements:
- "{{ phpfiles.results }}"
- files
The part with the with_subelements did the trick. Of course this line
can be written as:
loop: "{{ query('subelements', phpfiles.results, files) }}"