{"id":1862,"date":"2020-04-07T21:42:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artem.services\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2020-04-07T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:23:21","slug":"1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artem.services\/?p=1862&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Ansible — Template: to_nice_json"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In order to create a file from the template and immediately save it as "Pretty JSON<\/strong>", you can use the "copy<\/strong>" module with the "content<\/strong>" key.<\/p>\n

For example, save the template "config.j2<\/strong>" as the file "\/app\/config.json<\/strong>"<\/p>\n

Playbook:<\/h3>\n
\r\n- name: Template a file to configuration files\r\n  copy:\r\n    content: "{{ lookup('template', 'templates\/config.j2') | to_nice_json }}"\r\n    dest: "\/app\/config.json"\r\n    owner: artem\r\n    group: artem\r\n    mode: '0644'\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In order to create a file from the template and immediately save it as "Pretty JSON", you can use the "copy" module with the "content" key. For example, save the template "config.j2" as the file "\/app\/config.json" Playbook:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1131],"tags":[1133,1515,979,1517,1519,1521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artem.services\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}