ansible.builtin.hash filter – hash of input data

Note

This filter plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name hash even without specifying the collections: keyword. However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same filter plugin name.

New in Ansible 1.9

Synopsis

  • Returns a configurable hash of the input data. Uses SHA-1 by default.

Input

This describes the input of the filter, the value before | ansible.builtin.hash.

Parameter

Comments

Input

any / required

Data to checksum.

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.builtin.hash(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...).

Parameter

Comments

hashtype

string

Type of algorithm to produce the hash.

The list of available choices depends on the installed Python’s hashlib.

Default: "sha1"

Examples

# sha1_hash => "109f4b3c50d7b0df729d299bc6f8e9ef9066971f"
sha1_hash: {{ 'test2' | hash('sha1') }}
# md5 => "5a105e8b9d40e1329780d62ea2265d8a"
md5: {{ 'test2' | hash('md5') }}

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

string

The checksum of the input, as configured in hashtype.

Returned: success

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.