From a66c55981831aead10e081f6fb5112091b117557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Coca Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:15:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] documented new wantlist feature --- docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst index 9cfac497b9..725a26eafb 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst @@ -2,14 +2,16 @@ Using Lookups ============= Lookup plugins allow access of data in Ansible from outside sources. These plugins are evaluated on the Ansible control -machine, and can include reading the filesystem but also contacting external datastores and services. +machine, and can include reading the filesystem but also contacting external datastores and services. These values are then made available using the standard templating system in Ansible, and are typically used to load variables or templates with information from those systems. -.. note:: This is considered an advanced feature, and many users will probably not rely on these features. +.. note:: This is considered an advanced feature, and many users will probably not rely on these features. .. note:: Lookups occur on the local computer, not on the remote computer. +.. note:: Since 1.9 you can pass wantlist=True to lookups to use in jinja2 template "for" loops. + .. contents:: Topics .. _getting_file_contents: