Ton Kersten

Running it through Tattr (part 2)

Some time ago I created a playbook to show the content of a rendered template. When you keep digging in the Ansible documentation, you suddenly stumble over the template lookup-plugin. And then it turns out that my playbook is a bit clumsy.

A nicer and shorter way to do it:

---
#
# This playbook renders a template and shows the results
# Run this playbook with:
#
#       ansible-playbook -e templ=<name of the template> template_test.yml
#
- hosts: localhost
  become: false
  connection: local

  tasks:
    - fail:
        msg: "Bailing out. The play requires a template name (templ=...)"
      when: templ is undefined

    - name: show templating results
      debug:
        msg: "{{ lookup('template', templ) }}"