Ansible Jinja Templates Explained with Real world examples
Here I'm starting this post with famous ARISTOTLE quote. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a Habit" Welcome back Ansible Automations and who are habituated as Ansible automation specialists this post for them to give boosted walk through, In this post why Jinja templates, When managing hundreds of Linux servers, it becomes difficult to maintain separate configuration files for each environment. Development, Testing, UAT, and Production environments often require different values such as hostnames, IP addresses, ports, memory settings, and application URLs. Instead of creating multiple configuration files manually, Ansible uses Jinja2 Templates to dynamically generate configuration files during deployment. Jinja2 allows variables, loops, conditions, and filters to be embedded within template files so that a single template can be reused across multiple systems. I would like to share my experiments with Jinja2 templates usage on the Ansibl...