resttags02.yml

---
- name: Ansible rest and tags
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false

  ## Lookup plugins can be used anywhere you can use templating in Ansible-
  ## in a play, in variables files, or in Jinja2 templates for the template
  ## module
  vars:
    myrsakey: "{{ lookup('file', '/home/student/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"
    astros: "{{ lookup('url', 'http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json') }}"

  ## Tags are easy! ansible-playbook example.yml --tags "keytime,astros" # would run everything
  ## ansible-playbook example.yml --tags "astros" # would NOT run the task named 'Key prep'
  tasks:
   - name: Key prep
     debug:
       msg: "Your RSA key is {{ myrsakey }}"
     tags:
      - keytime
      - vmprep

   - name: Quick ISS API checkup
     debug:
       msg: "Today on the ISS are: {{ astros.people }}"
     tags:
      - jsonwork
      - astros

   - name: Clean up that ISS data
     debug:
       msg: "Let me format that with a loop: {{ item }}"
     loop: "{{ astros.people|map(attribute='name')|list }}"
     tags:
      - jsonwork
      - astros