Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Filters available

Jinja2 is not limited to strictly computational operations. It can be leveraged for any number of operational tasks. Ansible has kindly also provided a number of handy filters, which can be applied to our variable implementations.

The following is a table with a set of examples for the more popular operational tasks one might need to perform using Jinja filter expressions:

Expression name	Example	Description of the expression
to_json	{{ some_variable | to_json }}	Converts the variable data into JSON format and renders it.
to_yaml	{{ some_variable | to_yaml }}	Converts the variable data into YAML format and renders it.
mandatory	{{ variable | mandatory }}	Makes the variable declaration and setting mandatory ...