ansible/docsite/rst/modules/template.rst
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.. _template:
template
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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/).
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<table>
<tr>
<th class="head">parameter</th>
<th class="head">required</th>
<th class="head">default</th>
<th class="head">choices</th>
<th class="head">comments</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dest</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td></td>
<td><ul></ul></td>
<td>Location to render the template to on the remote machine.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>src</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td></td>
<td><ul></ul></td>
<td>Path of a Jinja2 formatted template on the local server. This can be a relative or absolute path.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>backup</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>no</td>
<td><ul><li>yes</li><li>no</li></ul></td>
<td>Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>others</td>
<td>no</td>
<td></td>
<td><ul></ul></td>
<td>all arguments accepted by the <span class='module'>file</span> module also work here</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<p>Example from Ansible Playbooks</p> <p><pre>
template src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf owner=bin group=wheel mode=0644
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<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>Since Ansible version 0.9, templates are loaded with <code>trim_blocks=True</code>.</p>