Working with Stacked Loops in Ansible
In my homelab environment, I recently encountered an interesting challenge: I needed to execute multiple Hugo commands across multiple website directories. This led me to explore one of Ansible’s powerful features - stacked loops. In this post, I’ll share my experience and show you how to effectively use stacked loops in Ansible.
The Challenge I maintain several Hugo-based websites in my homelab, each requiring the same set of commands for updates and maintenance. Manually running these commands for each site was becoming tedious and error-prone. I needed a way to automate: