Lesson 5.5 arrays.yml Playbook Does Not Work

[noelmiller]

Sander,

I really appreciate all the work you have done for this course. I have a small correction that needs to be made in order for one of your playbooks to work. It is specifically in the vars/users file.
The error you get when running the playbook without the edit is:

The changes I made to arrays2.yml are just for my environment:

If you edit the vars/users file to look like this:

It will loop properly because in the previous var/users file it has nested hashes which cannot be looped over.

If you see the output from the original file, it shows it clearly if you remove the attributes and only do it with one user:

Edit I made to only include linda in the original syntax you provided:

At any rate, this is what I found, I can feel free to do a pull request to make the change, but I fear you will need to remake the video or add some annotations to it to show the proper syntax so people don't run into the same issue I did.

Let me know I how I can help!

Thanks,

Noel Miller

[noelmiller]

One thing I forgot to mention, we should be using loop instead of with_items as with_items will be deprecated and for RHCE, they want you to use loop.