Hi Anand
You actually can (and I prefer to) write your playbooks with that kind of
plain YAML syntax. e.g.
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: blah
yum:
name:
- mypackage
- otherpackage
state: present
- name: blurh
copy:
src: myfile
dest: /tmp/myfile
mode: 0640
owner: me
It gets more interesting with the shell and command modules
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: run this
shell: mycommand
args:
creates: /tmp/artefact
chdir: /path/to/dir
executable: /bin/bash
On 2 February 2015 at 02:15, Anand Buddhdev <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Ansible developers,
>
> I've been wondering about something. Ansible's syntax for module arguments
> is key=value parameters, all on a single line. This then needs to be
> parsed, and the key=value elements properly separated.
>
> Wouldn't it be much nicer if the module parameters were also just written
> in YAML syntax? For example:
>
> - hosts: all
> tasks:
> - name: blah
> yum:
> - name: package
> - state: installed
>
> And it might even be an idea to pass the playbook through Jinja first,
> allowing things like:
>
> - name: blah
> yum:
> {% for pkg in packages %}
> - name: "{{ pkg }}"
> - state: installed
> {% endfor %}
>
> We would not need the "when:" conditional, or the shlex module to split
> key=value pairs. This would allow taking full advantage of Jinja's
> templating features.
>
> Could this be an idea for Ansible 2.0?
>
> Regards,
> Anand
>
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