DOCUMENTATION: name: items2dict author: Ansible core team version_added: "2.7" short_description: Consolidate a list of itemized dictionaries into a dictionary positional: _input, key_name, value_name description: - Takes a list of dicts with each having a C(key) and C(value) keys, and transforms the list into a dictionary, effectively as the reverse of R(dict2items,ansible_collections.ansible.builtin.dict2items_filter). options: _input: description: - A list of dictionaries. - Every dictionary must have keys C(key) and C(value). type: list elements: dict required: true key_name: description: The name of the key in the element dictionaries that holds the key to use at destination. type: str default: key value_name: description: The name of the key in the element dictionaries that holds the value to use at destination. type: str default: value seealso: - plugin_type: filter plugin: ansible.builtin.dict2items EXAMPLES: | # mydict => { "hi": "bye", "ciao": "ciao" } mydict: {{ [{'key': 'hi', 'value': 'bye'}, {'key': 'ciao', 'value': 'ciao'} ]| items2dict}} # The output is a dictionary with two key/value pairs: # Application: payment # Environment: dev vars: tags: - key: Application value: payment - key: Environment value: dev consolidated: "{{ tags | items2dict }}" RETURN: _value: description: Dictionary with the consolidated key/values. type: dict