So are there any examples of a playbook or role that loads some JSON data
from a file, works with that data, then writes it back out using a simple
template like {{ data_structure }} ? What set of tasks could perform this?
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 6:52:31 PM UTC-4, Synaesthete wrote:
>
> I tend to take the template route almost all the time. This is in regard
> to modifying JSON-based configuration files. I compose several roles and
> run them against a host. Each role might do something very distinct, while
> they all modify a common configuration file or add information to a
> meta-data file. Since I have several roles none of which know about
> one-another, yet all need to add some relevant data to a common JSON-based
> configuration file, it would be convenient to edit this data directly since
> there's really no single role from where I can define a master template.
>
>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>> I'm assuming this was a request to replace some keys inside of them.
>>
>> In most cases yes, if you have a datastructure defined in Ansible - and
>> ansible can read almost any data file as JSON instead of YAML too - not
>> that this matters,
>>
>> {{ datastructure }}
>>
>> is all the template needs to be.
>>
>> I was assuming this was about config file changes, but if you can use a
>> template, it's better to fully declare the desired end result 99.999% of
>> the time. Good point.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Brian Coca <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> its soooo easy to write json with jinja templates.
>>>
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