together – merges lists into synchronized list

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Creates a list with the iterated elements of the supplied lists
• To clarify with an example, [ ‘a’, ‘b’ ] and [ 1, 2 ] turn into [ (‘a’,1), (‘b’, 2) ]
• This is basically the same as the ‘zip_longest’ filter and Python function
• Any ‘unbalanced’ elements will be substituted with ‘None’

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
_terms - / required			list of lists to merge

Examples

- name: item.0 returns from the 'a' list, item.1 returns from the '1' list
  debug:
    msg: "{{ item.0 }} and {{ item.1 }}"
  with_together:
    - ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
    - [1, 2, 3, 4]

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key	Returned	Description
_list -		synchronized list

Status

• This lookup is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This lookup is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Bradley Young <young.bradley@gmail.com>