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31.10.2019 · version_compare filter not working in Ansible 2.9.0, worked in 2.8.x #64174. geerlingguy opened this issue Nov 1, 2019 · 4 comments Labels. affects_2.9 bug support:community. Comments. Copy link Contributor geerlingguy commented Nov 1, 2019 ...

Filters in Ansible are from Jinja2, and are used for transforming data inside a template expression. Jinja2 ships with many filters. See builtin filters in …

Filters in Ansible are from Jinja2, and are used for transforming data inside a template expression. Jinja2 ships with many filters. See builtin filters in the official Jinja2 template documentation.. Take into account that templating happens on the Ansible controller, not on the task’s target host, so filters also execute on the controller as they manipulate local data.

@geerlingguy geerlingguy commented on Oct 31, 2019 edited · SUMMARY · ISSUE TYPE · COMPONENT NAME · ANSIBLE VERSION · CONFIGURATION · OS / ...

Ansible selectattr filter is basically an inherited version of Jinja selectattr filter. As Ansible Quotes in their documentation besides the ...

There are two useful Jinja filters that could help dealing with version numbers in Ansible code. One is version_compare , which allows to ...

Coding for multiple versions of Ansible and Jinja. In general, use the filters and tests provided by Ansible 2.8 wherever possible: https://docs.ansible.com/ ...

's and compare the numbers, but I can't even find a friendly filter to explode the version string out, so I'm at a loss. Share.

You are reading the latest community version of the Ansible documentation. ... As of Ansible 2.5, using a jinja test as a filter will generate a warning.

You can create custom Ansible filters as plugins, though we generally welcome new filters into the ansible-core repo so everyone can use them. Because templating happens on the Ansible controller, not on the target host, filters execute on the controller and transform data locally. Handling undefined variables Providing default values

Test syntax varies from filter syntax ( variable | filter ). Historically Ansible has registered tests as both jinja tests and jinja filters, allowing for them ...