ansible.builtin.version test – compare version strings

Note

This test plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name version. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.version for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same test plugin name.

Synopsis

  • Compare version strings using various versioning schemes

Aliases: version_compare

Input

This describes the input of the test, the value before is ansible.builtin.version or is not ansible.builtin.version.

Parameter

Comments

Input

string / required

Left hand version to compare

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the test. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following examples: input is ansible.builtin.version(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and input is not ansible.builtin.version(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

operator

string

Comparison operator

Choices:

  • "=="

  • "="

  • "eq" ← (default)

  • "<"

  • "lt"

  • "<="

  • "le"

  • ">"

  • "gt"

  • ">="

  • "ge"

  • "!="

  • "<>"

  • "ne"

strict

boolean

Whether to use strict version scheme. Mutually exclusive with version_type

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

version

string / required

Right hand version to compare

version_type

string

Version scheme to use for comparison. Mutually exclusive with strict. See notes for descriptions on the version types.

Choices:

  • "loose" ← (default)

  • "strict"

  • "semver"

  • "semantic"

  • "pep440"

Notes

Note

  • loose - This type corresponds to the Python distutils.version.LooseVersion class. All version formats are valid for this type. The rules for comparison are simple and predictable, but may not always give expected results.

  • strict - This type corresponds to the Python distutils.version.StrictVersion class. A version number consists of two or three dot-separated numeric components, with an optional “pre-release” tag on the end. The pre-release tag consists of a single letter a or b followed by a number. If the numeric components of two version numbers are equal, then one with a pre-release tag will always be deemed earlier (lesser) than one without.

  • semver/semantic - This type implements the Semantic Version scheme for version comparison.

  • pep440 - This type implements the Python PEP-440 versioning rules for version comparison. Added in version 2.14.

Examples

- name: version test examples
  assert:
    that:
      - "'1.0' is version_compare('1.0', '==')"  # old name
      - "'1.0' is version('1.0', '==')"
      - "'1.0' is version('2.0', '!=')"
      - "'1.0' is version('2.0', '<')"
      - "'2.0' is version('1.0', '>')"
      - "'1.0' is version('1.0', '<=')"
      - "'1.0' is version('1.0', '>=')"
      - "'1.0' is version_compare('1.0', '==', strict=true)"  # old name
      - "'1.0' is version('1.0', '==', strict=true)"
      - "'1.0' is version('2.0', '!=', strict=true)"
      - "'1.0' is version('2.0', '<', strict=true)"
      - "'2.0' is version('1.0', '>', strict=true)"
      - "'1.0' is version('1.0', '<=', strict=true)"
      - "'1.0' is version('1.0', '>=', strict=true)"
      - "'1.2.3' is version('2.0.0', 'lt', version_type='semver')"
      - "'2.14.0rc1' is version('2.14.0', 'lt', version_type='pep440')"

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

boolean

Returns True or False depending on the outcome of the comparison.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ansible Core