Working with versions
If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja sort
filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, 2.10
will come before 2.9
. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the version_sort
filter:
- name: Sort list by version number
debug:
var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
vars:
ansible_versions:
- '2.8.0'
- '2.11.0'
- '2.7.0'
- '2.10.0'
- '2.9.0'
This produces:
TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
"2.7.0",
"2.8.0",
"2.9.0",
"2.10.0",
"2.11.0"
]
}