Remote template

[Bruno Dupuis]

Hi,

Is there a practical way to use a remote file as a jinja template in template modules ?

Let's explain my use case:

My application code requires configuration that may vary depending on the environment (dev/staging/prot)

I want to keep configuration defintion into application code, as j2 template, because it's easier to maintain.

Those templates are deployed on the target machines along with the app, and then ansible creates final configuration files, using host/group variables.

Regards.

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Bruno

[Brian Harring]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Bruno Dupuis <br...@botify.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is there a practical way to use a remote file as a jinja template in template modules ?

Combination of the fetch module and template module seems to be your options here.  Specifically http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#fetch .

 

Let's explain my use case:

My application code requires configuration that may vary depending on the environment (dev/staging/prot)

I want to keep configuration defintion into application code, as j2 template, because it's easier to maintain.

Those templates are deployed on the target machines along with the app, and then ansible creates final configuration files, using host/group variables.

Fun pattern; I'd be curious what your final implementation is for this.  My first inclination is that of "just centralize it in the repo- say via git submodules", but that has it's own issues.

Cheers-
~brian

[Michael DeHaan]

+1 to submodules, this way your playbook repo would have access to the template and those hijinks would not be required.

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[vitaly bichov]

Hi,

I'm facing the same issue and wonder how you solved it?

[Brian Coca]

something like?

template: src={{lookup('uri', 'http://remote.com/file.j2'}}

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[Hristo Stoyanov]

Can we do something like the "remote_src" parameter added in the "copy" module with Ansible 2.0? The use of "fetch" seems like a pretty awkward workaround. See another legitimate use case for this here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33163204/ansible-remote-templates

[Brian Coca]

that would require the remote machine to have jinja2 installed.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Hristo Stoyanov <hr.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we do something like the "remote_src" parameter added in the "copy"
> module with Ansible 2.0? The use of "fetch" seems like a pretty awkward
> workaround. See another legitimate use case for this here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33163204/ansible-remote-templates
>

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