Feature request: aggregate instead of loop

[borgermeister]

Hi

Not sure if this is the correct place, but will the VLAN module in this collection support aggregated resources? https://www.ansible.com/blog/accelerate-ansible-networking-aggregate-resources

This will speed up the creating of many VLANs.

[tchiapuziowong]

Hi @borgermeister - Development on this collection has ceased besides bug fixes , the workaround for this would be to use Jinja2 templating to generate a file with the desired configurations and using the arubaos_config module with the src: parameter to configure the desired VLANs in one connection. Here's an example:

- hosts: all
  collections:
    - arubanetworks.aos_switch
  vars:
    ansible_connection: network_cli
  tasks:
    - name: generate vlans based on template
      template:
        src: vlan_template.j2
        dest: ./generated_vlans.txt    # This is a file that would be created in your local directory
      vars:
        starting_vlan: 10
        num_vlans: [1, 2, 3]

    - name: configure vlans using template
      arubaos_config:
        src: ./generated_vlans.txt

Contents of vlan_template.j2

{% for vlan in num_vlans %}
{% set vlan_id = vlan + starting_vlan %}
vlan {{vlan_id}}
{% endfor %}

Contents of generated_vlans.txt:

vlan 11
vlan 12
vlan 13

[borgermeister]

I see. Thank you for the informative answer 😀