On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 3:41:55 PM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote: > > On 09. juli 2016 04:03, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > I have what seems to be a simple question that I can't find on the > web. How do I get the current date from the Ansible server into a J2 > variable? I know how to do it with {{ ansible_date_time.date }} but that's > from the remote node at the time Ansible collected facts (which could be > cached), NOT "now" on the server I'm running on...right? > > > > Check out lookups > > https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_lookups.html > <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_lookups.html> > > > > {{ lookup('pipe','date') }} > > Thanks. I should have mentioned I considered that, but it seems crazy and > inefficient to have to shell out and run the `date` command when Python, > Ansible and J2 already know what date and time it is...I just need a way to > make one of them tell me in a playbook. Is there really no way to do > something like {{ now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}? >
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