post/2019-04-25-writing-ansible-filter-plugins/

[utterances-bot]

Writing Ansible filter plugins :: blog.oddbit.com

I often see questions from people who are attemping to perform complex text transformations in their Ansible playbooks. While I am a huge fan of Ansible, data transformation is not one of its strong points. For example, this past week someone asked a question on Stack Overflow in which they were attempting to convert the output of the keytool command into a list of dictionaries. The output of the keytool -list -v command looks something like this:

https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2019-04-25-writing-ansible-filter-plugins/

[torsina]

Hi, I have a lot of problem creating plugins for ansible, could you make this tutorial available on github please ?

[larsks]

The content of the tutorial is already on github; there's a link at the bottom of the article: https://github.com/larsks/blog-2019-04-25-filter-plugins