How to get the first element of a list from the output of setup module in Ansible?

thinkingmonster picture thinkingmonster · Jan 12, 2017 · Viewed 61.3k times · Source

I received the following data from the setup module:

"ansible_nodename": "3d734bc2a391",
"ansible_os_family": "RedHat",
"ansible_pkg_mgr": "yum",
"ansible_processor": [
  "AuthenticAMD",
  "AMD PRO A10-8700B R6, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G"
],
"ansible_processor_cores": 1,
"ansible_processor_count": 1,
"ansible_processor_threads_per_core": 1,

I want to retrieve the 1st value of ansible_processor and use it in a Jinja2 template.

If I use {{ ansible_processor }}, it's giving me both values:

"AuthenticAMD",
"AMD PRO A10-8700B R6, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G"

But I want only the first one.

Answer

techraf picture techraf · Jan 12, 2017

To get first item of the list:

- debug:
    msg: "First item: {{ ansible_processor[0] }}"

Or:

- debug:
    msg: "First item: {{ ansible_processor | first }}"