On 18/05/21 2:24 am, Brian Coca wrote:
For data manipulation you want to create a filter plugin, you still
need to be explicit about the data you feed it.
Thanks for that - this is what I've ended up with. There's probably some
copy/paste boilerplate that's not needed in my case.
Does it lo
plugins in general only get the variables they need, vars_plugins are
supposed to generate them, not change them, so they get very little
access to variables in general.
For data manipulation you want to create a filter plugin, you still
need to be explicit about the data you feed it.
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On 15/05/21 6:39 pm, Richard Hector wrote:
Do I need to write a custom plugin of some kind?
I'm experimenting with writing a vars plugin, referring to these:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_plugins.html
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/plug
On 15/05/21 6:39 pm, Richard Hector wrote:
Any suggestions?
Is this stuff reasonable to do with ansible, and a templating language?
Do I need to write a custom plugin of some kind?
If I had a dynamic inventory, then I could probably generate extra
variables at that stage, but that's further
Hi all,
Well, it's not really that complex, but seems complex to do within the
constraints of ansible/jinja.
My scenario is that I run dirvish to back up multiple containers on
multiple hosts. The containers are backed up via the filesystems on the
hosts.
The root filesystem of the contain
