Ansible Jinja template if statement

Question

This is a snippet from my Ansible jinja template which populates an environment specific template.

docker_compose_mq: <string-passed from Jenkins>
docker_compose_profiles: "string"

{% if "{{ risk_docker_compose_mq }}" == "string" %}
  {% "{{ risk_docker_compose_profiles: "string1" }}" %}
{% endif %}

This fails with a pretty generic error message:

"Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n\n\nThe error appears to have been in 'True': line 26, column 2, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\n(could not open file to display line)"}

I'm almost certain it's to do with escaping the quotes here but can't for the life of me work out what I'm doing wrong, any ideas?

Answer 1

The syntax failures are caused by the presence of the {{...}} expression blocks (normally used for filling the template output with the corresponding content) inside the {%...%} statement blocks.

I only used standalone jinja2 templates, so I'm not 100% certain if this applies to Ansible jinja templates as well, but I suspect so. In the Jinja2 {%...%} statement blocks variables are referenced directly (and variable assignments are done in {% set ...%} statements), so what you're after may be along these lines:

{% set docker_compose_mq = <string-passed from Jenkins> %}
{% set docker_compose_profiles = "string" %}

{% if risk_docker_compose_mq == "string" %}
  {% set risk_docker_compose_profiles = "string1" %}
{% endif %}

Answer 2

The syntax is the below one:

{% if backup_dest[0:1]  == "/" %}

=> this one tests if "backup_dest" first character is "/"

{% if variable == "blabla" %}

=> this one tests if "variable" equals to "blabla"

Regards