https://brainbit.uk/tags/jinja/Recent content in jinja on BrainBit Latest ArticlesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 07 Oct 2016 16:24:32 +0000https://brainbit.uk/posts/repl-for-jinja/Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:24:32 +0000https://brainbit.uk/posts/repl-for-jinja/As i work with Ansible (or I try to learn Ansible) sometimes i want to test little j2 snippets (Used in templates/when conditions / others within Ansible). You can ipython (or your fav repl ) and do it manually or you can use (and contribute) to this little tool i built yesterday. I’ve called jinrepl (lack of a better name) , and it basically evals strings into j2.template and renders it , nothing major, but with a few neat features.https://brainbit.uk/posts/logging-ansible/Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:18:12 +0000https://brainbit.uk/posts/logging-ansible/It’s important to have some kind of logging when things go wrong , and when they go right too .Somehow Ansible seems to log (to syslog (LOG_INFO facility)) Given this very basic playbook: if you run something like: ( -vvv critical as otherwise, nothing goes to syslog) ansible-playbook -i hosts demo.yml -**vvv** You will get some thing like: which us quite neat , but what happens when things go wrong?, im gonna change the command I’m running to “decho” instead of “echo” , as we all know that’s gonna trigger some kind of error:https://brainbit.uk/posts/ansible-conditionals-quick-dive/Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:36:17 +0000https://brainbit.uk/posts/ansible-conditionals-quick-dive/I feel like , this is too much , too much typing to do something so simple: Somehow i think this should simplified , i think the assertion at the top is too much to test something so simple , I’d like something like: If you not gonna reuse passwd_exist anymore what’s the point of another task to get this done. Now I’m by no means an Ansible expert but i was wondering how complicated would it be to implement something like that , i went to freenode and the confirmed the only way to get this done was by having that “check” task :