02. Templates

Ansible Templates

• Ansible templates enable you to apply configuration files which are customized to fit the application
• Variables are abstracted using the format: {{ VARIABLE_NAME }}

Templates Example Code

File: repo.conf.j2

server {
        listen   80;
        server_name  {{ SERVER_NAME }};
        root   {{ REPO_PATH }};
        location / {
                index  index.php index.html index.htm;
                autoindex on;    #enable listing of directory index
        }
}

Apply Template

- name: generate all configmap configs
  template:
      src: repo.conf.j2
      dest: /etc/nginx/conf.d/repo.conf
      owner: root
      group: root
      mode: 0744