ansible.utils.ip4_hex filter – This filter is designed to convert IPv4 address to Hexadecimal notation with optional delimiter.

Note

This filter plugin is part of the ansible.utils collection (version 4.1.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.utils.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.utils.ip4_hex.

New in ansible.utils 2.5.0

Synopsis

  • This filter convert IPv4 address to Hexadecimal notation with optional delimiter

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the filter. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following example: input | ansible.utils.ip4_hex(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

arg

string / required

IPv4 address.

delimiter

string

You can provide a single argument to each ip4_hex() filter as delimiter.

Default: ""

Examples

#### examples
# ip4_hex convert IPv4 address to Hexadecimal notation with optional delimiter
- debug:
    msg: "{{ '192.168.1.5' | ansible.utils.ip4_hex }}"

# ip4_hex with delimiter
- debug:
    msg: "{{ '192.168.1.5' | ansible.utils.ip4_hex(':') }}"

# TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************************
# task path: /Users/amhatre/ansible-collections/playbooks/test_ip4_hex.yaml:7
# Loading collection ansible.utils from /Users/amhatre/ansible-collections/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/utils
# ok: [localhost] => {
#     "msg": "c0a80105"
# }
#
# TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************************
# task path: /Users/amhatre/ansible-collections/playbooks/test_ip4_hex.yaml:11
# Loading collection ansible.utils from /Users/amhatre/ansible-collections/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/utils
# ok: [localhost] => {
#     "msg": "c0:a8:01:05"
# }

Return Value

Key

Description

data

string

Returns IPv4 address to Hexadecimal notation.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ashwini Mhatre (@amhatre)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.