Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application: Provisioning, Configuring, and Managing Servers, Applications, and Their Dependencies

© Peter Membrey and Shaun R Smith 2022

S. R. Smith, P. MembreyBeginning Ansible Concepts and Applicationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8173-4_7

7. Becoming an Ansible Jinja

Shaun R Smith¹   and Peter Membrey²

(1)

Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

(2)

Kowloon, Hong Kong

 

We have hinted a lot at configuration files and the ability to use centralized variables across multiple configuration files. We have pushed some custom static website content to our web servers and viewed it through a web browser.

But what ties all these things together? How do we use a variable inside our web content or add the http_port into our nginx configuration file to ensure the web server is really on port 8080?

Enter Jinja2.

Jinja2 is a powerful templating language which ...