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regexansiblejinja2curly-braces

Ansible escape a seccession of curly braces

I'm writing an Ansible playbook to configure network teaming and I have the following jinja2 template file in my playbook:

DEVICE=team0
DEVICETYPE=Team
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR="{{ ip }}"
PREFIX="{{ prefix }}"
GATEWAY="{{ gateway }}" 
TEAM_CONFIG='{"runner": {"name": "loadbalance"}, "tx_hash": ["eth", "ipv4"], "ports": {{{ ports_list | join(', ') }}}, "link_watch": {"name": "ethtool"}}'

I wanted to know is a there a way to escape the first curly brace of "ports": {{{ ports_list | join(', ') }} as I want Ansible to automatically calculate it to have the following output in the final jinja2 file:

"ports": {"ens1": {}, "ens2": {}}

N.B: I've already tried {{ ports_list | to_json }} and {{ ports_list | join(', ') | to_json }}

Solution

  • Seems like you are looking for to_json filter:

    "ports": {{ ports_list | to_json }}

    I guess you may want to apply it to whole config object.