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template - Templates a file out to a remote server.

Synopsis

Templates are processed by the Jinja2 templating language (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/) - documentation on the template formatting can be found in the Template Designer Documentation (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/). Six additional variables can be used in templates: ansible_managed (configurable via the defaults section of ansible.cfg) contains a string which can be used to describe the template name, host, modification time of the template file and the owner uid, template_host contains the node name of the template’s machine, template_uid the owner, template_path the absolute path of the template, template_fullpath is the absolute path of the template, and template_run_date is the date that the template was rendered. Note that including a string that uses a date in the template will result in the template being marked ‘changed’ each time.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
backup
 no no
  • yes
  • no
Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
dest
 yes
    Location to render the template to on the remote machine.
    force
    		 no yes
    • yes
    • no
    the default is yes, which will replace the remote file when contents are different than the source. If no, the file will only be transferred if the destination does not exist.
    group
    		 no
      name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown
      mode
      		 no
        mode the file or directory should be. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers (like 0644). Leaving off the leading zero will likely have unexpected results. As of version 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r).
        owner
        		 no
          name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown
          selevel
          		 no s0
            level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range. _default feature works as for seuser.
            serole
            		 no
              role part of SELinux file context, _default feature works as for seuser.
              setype
              		 no
                type part of SELinux file context, _default feature works as for seuser.
                seuser
                		 no
                  user part of SELinux file context. Will default to system policy, if applicable. If set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available
                  src
                  		 yes
                    Path of a Jinja2 formatted template on the local server. This can be a relative or absolute path.
                    validate
                    		 no None
                      The validation command to run before copying into place. The path to the file to validate is passed in via '%s' which must be present as in the example below. The command is passed securely so shell features like expansion and pipes won't work.

                      Examples

                      # Example from Ansible Playbooks
- template: src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf owner=bin group=wheel mode=0644

# The same example, but using symbolic modes equivalent to 0644
- template: src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf owner=bin group=wheel mode="u=rw,g=r,o=r"

# Copy a new "sudoers" file into place, after passing validation with visudo
- template: src=/mine/sudoers dest=/etc/sudoers validate='visudo -cf %s'

                      Notes

                      Note

                      Since Ansible version 0.9, templates are loaded with trim_blocks=True.

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