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How to print date in Ansible template module?

How to print the present date when the Ansible Jinja2 Template is run?

My Jinja2 template is

Today date is date +%Y-%m-%d

When I run the task it is simply copy pasting the same line, but I want todays date to be printed in the destination file

Solution

  • A built-in way of getting a date into a Jinja template is to use the template_run_date variable that's automatically available when using the template module.

    For example a Jinja template file my.conf.j2

    # My configuration file
# Updated on {{ template_run_date }}

    Will render the date/time stamp of when the template was rendered.