Questions tagged [jinja]
Jinja2 is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed.
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Ansible / Jinja2 Unexpected templating type error
I am trying to take a dictionary from one or more async tasks "register: task_variable" then collecting it as a list based on its id's and running a wait task using async_status on the ...
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How to access elements of a variable in ansible
I'm trying to access a specific value in a list of data and it fails, can't find the ipa variable.
Here is a short bit of the boulder.yaml vars file, yes, dual homed. Network configurations require it:...
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How Can I Escape Backspace Using Set_Fact In Ansible With Jinja Conditional
I cannot figure out how to escape an HTML closing tag, <\b> in this example, when used inside an Ansible Jinja conditional (ansible 2.9.27 in this case). Using an additional backslash <\\b>...
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ansible & jinja2: How to reference JSON structure items whose keys are variables?
I am using ansible's community.aws.iam_server_certificate_info module to get information about a server certificate on aws ec2, and registering it as a variable "server_cert_info_result"
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Jinja syntax error: missing endif, in spite of providing it
I am using Salt 2019.2.0 version and below is my state file where I am using if condition to check the values and run states if it's a match. Even if I have provided endif, it says Jinja looking for ...
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How to programmatically generate docker-compose file?
I am writing an Ansible playbook to deploy services to a clustered environment. There are 3 types of hosts (Application, Load balancer, database). Services are deployed via docker-compose on each host ...
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Ansible fetch all vars files from a directory to generate a combined vars file
What I'm looking for is a task (or tasks) to read whatever .yml files exist in a specified folder and combine them into a file containing all the variables. For example:
pets/steves_pets.yml:
cats:
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How to downgrade Jinja for Ansible?
I'm using Ansible 2.8.0 (ansible --version installed by brew on macOS) which is using Jinja 2.10.
I've tried to downgrade Jinja to 2.8 via pip3 install jinja2==2.8, and I can confirm the right ...
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Ansible playbook fails with: no test named 'success'
I have an Ansible Playbook that is used to configure WSL on my Windows Laptop, having rebuilt my laptop recently I needed to run the playbook again, however it is failing with the following message:
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How do I get the hosts from a specific section of an Ansible `hosts` file in a Jinja2 Template
I have a hosts file including the following contents
[elasticsearch_nodes]
host1 os=linux
host2 os=linux
host3 os=linux
In a .j2 template I want to get the the list of [elasticsearch_nodes]
{{ ...
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Saltstack Jinja template pillar merge
I have a several pillars and I am trying to merge them in the same jinja variable
{%- import_yaml "server_list_de.yaml" as servers %}
{%- import_yaml "server_list_uk.yaml" as servers_uk %}
{%- ...
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How to add multiple jvm options in a saltstack jinja?
I have a config.jinja file with below jvm options:
`-Dappdynamics.agent.appName=AP_{{ pillar['region'] }}`
However the AP_{{ pillar['region'] }} varies for different environments. For Dev/Prod it ...
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Configuring Zookeeper from Ansible
I'm trying to configure a Zookeeper Cluster with Ansible. As you might know Zookeeper has two important config files.
zookeeper/conf/zoo.cfg
I create this file on each cluster member using this ...
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Ansible Jinja template if statement
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 "{{ ...
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Yaml linting failling when jinja is used
I am using https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html to lint my yaml files (used in a saltstack context, and linted by jenkins jobs at every commit), but as reported and explained here, it ...
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Compare Strings to get Unique values in Jinja2
I have a variable with list of node IP's and its respective Availability Zone.
seed = {
10.18.13.12 = us-east-1a
10.18.37.93 = us-east-1b
10.18.68.147 = us-east-1a
10.18.21.55 = us-east-1b
}
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Salt State is running against all servers except one, why?
I recently asked a question here: Is it possible to use multiple if statements in a salt state?
Thanks to the answer I have managed to update my state to only check specific files exist on specific ...
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Is it possible to use multiple if statements in a salt state?
I have a Salt state which checks multiple files exist on our webservers, we have 4 webservers and 2 environments so a combined total of 8. This state is applied to all by using a grain 'webserver'.
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Is it possible to combine jinja templates in ansible like this is possible with erbs in puppet?
It is possible to include a subtemplate in another Puppet template.
<%= scope.function_template("subtemplate.erb") %>
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Securely grab minion ID in pillar top file template?
I found this SLS file in a pillar top.sls targeting example:
top.sls:
base:
'*':
- hostspecificsls
hostspecificsls:
# See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/salt-users/UWfP6bMe6F8
{% ...
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How to examine Jinja output in Saltstack?
I have a templated SLS in Salt I'm trying to build, but it's emitting invalid syntax, which is resulting in errors such as:
my-minion-id:
- State 'system' in SLS 'network' is not formed as a list
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Constructing Dependencies from a Pillar in Saltstack
I'm trying to create a dummy state in Salt to pull dependencies from a list derived from a pillar.
In my top.sls file, I have:
base:
'*':
- components
Then, in components.sls, I have:
{% if '...
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