psuedo-ansible

gistfile1.txt

# I have all my hosts' public keys in a local directory ./keys/hosts/*pub
# I want to use the known_hosts module to add these to 'server'
# I'd prefer to just add the key to that local dir, and ansible just glob it up automatically

- hosts: server
  vars:
  # this is the part I'd like to do automatically;
  # just loop over everything in "keys/hosts/" without explicitly repeating each file
    ssh_pub_keys:
      - name: host1
        key: "{{ lookup('file', 'keys/hosts/host1.pub') }}"
      - name: host2
        key: "{{ lookup('file', 'keys/hosts/host2.pub') }}"
      #- name: et cetera...

# ....

  tasks:
    - name: Add host pub key to server
      known_hosts: 
        name: "{{ item.name }}"
        key: "{{ item.key }}"
      with_items: ssh_pub_keys