ansible/library/files/template

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# this is a virtual module that is entirely implemented server side
DOCUMENTATION = '''
---
module: template
version_added: historical
short_description: Templates a file out to a remote server.
description:
- Templates are processed by the Jinja2 templating language
(U(http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/)) - documentation on the template
formatting can be found in the Template Designer Documentation
(U(http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/)).
- "Six additional variables can be used in templates: C(ansible_managed)
(configurable via the C(defaults) section of C(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, C(template_host) contains the node name of
the template's machine, C(template_uid) the owner, C(template_path) the
absolute path of the template, C(template_fullpath) is the absolute path of the
template, and C(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:
src:
description:
- Path of a Jinja2 formatted template on the local server. This can be a relative or absolute path.
required: true
default: null
aliases: []
dest:
description:
- Location to render the template to on the remote machine.
required: true
default: null
backup:
description:
- Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get
the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
required: false
choices: [ "yes", "no" ]
default: "no"
validate:
description:
- 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 visudo example below.
- validation to run before copying into place. The command is passed
securely so shell features like expansion and pipes won't work.
required: false
default: ""
version_added: "1.2"
notes:
- "Since Ansible version 0.9, templates are loaded with C(trim_blocks=True)."
- "Also, you can override jinja2 settings by adding a special header to template file.
i.e. C(#jinja2:variable_start_string:'[%' , variable_end_string:'%]')
which changes the variable interpolation markers to [% var %] instead of {{ var }}. This is the best way to prevent evaluation of things that look like, but should not be Jinja2. raw/endraw in Jinja2 will not work as you expect because templates in Ansible are recursively evaluated."
requirements: []
author: Michael DeHaan
'''
EXAMPLES = '''
# Example from Ansible Playbooks
- template: src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf owner=bin group=wheel mode=0644
# Copy a new "sudoers" file into place, after passing validation with visudo
- template: src=/mine/sudoers dest=/etc/sudoers validate='visudo -cf %s'
'''