Re:Interesting Uses of Ansible's ternary filter
by mdaniel on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:09PM
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> Ansible clearly had to take a lot of liberties with the yaml format to make it work in practice
and yet, completely facepalmed by invoking Jinja2 with its default begin and end characters that are meaningful to yaml, thus ensuring billions of person-years of SO questions due to having to quote, sometimes multiple ways, every jinja2 invocation
Contrast that to GitHub Actions which uses ${{ }} for its parameterization and thus no quoting required, in contrast to
- debug:
msg: '{{ "what kind of lack of forethought was this nonsense" }}'
Kidding aside, it is somewhat amusing to see the same discussion as when chef happened repeat itself.
Ansible clearly had to take a lot of liberties with the yaml format to make it work in practice. The amount of yaml in yaml you have to write is surprising. I cannot wait for the cycle to repeat itself.