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Using Ansible

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  • Ansible tips and tricks

Contributing to Ansible

  • Ansible Community Guide
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Extending Ansible

  • Developer Guide

Common Ansible Scenarios

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Network Automation

  • Network Getting Started
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  • Network Developer Guide

Ansible Galaxy

  • Galaxy User Guide
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Reference & Appendices

  • Collection Index
    • Collections in the Amazon Namespace
    • Collections in the Ansible Namespace
    • Collections in the Arista Namespace
    • Collections in the Awx Namespace
    • Collections in the Azure Namespace
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    • Collections in the Cisco Namespace
    • Collections in the Cloud Namespace
    • Collections in the Cloudscale_ch Namespace
    • Collections in the Community Namespace
      • Community.Aws
      • Community.Ciscosmb
      • Community.Crypto
      • Community.Digitalocean
      • Community.Dns
      • Community.Docker
      • Community.General
        • Description
        • Communication
        • Changelog
        • Guides
        • Cloud Guides
        • Developer Guides
        • Plugin Index
      • Community.Grafana
      • Community.Hashi_Vault
      • Community.Hrobot
      • Community.Library_Inventory_Filtering_V1
      • Community.Libvirt
      • Community.Mongodb
      • Community.Mysql
      • Community.Network
      • Community.Okd
      • Community.Postgresql
      • Community.Proxysql
      • Community.Rabbitmq
      • Community.Routeros
      • Community.Sap_Libs
      • Community.Sops
      • Community.Vmware
      • Community.Windows
      • Community.Zabbix
    • Collections in the Containers Namespace
    • Collections in the Cyberark Namespace
    • Collections in the Dellemc Namespace
    • Collections in the F5networks Namespace
    • Collections in the Fortinet Namespace
    • Collections in the Frr Namespace
    • Collections in the Gluster Namespace
    • Collections in the Google Namespace
    • Collections in the Grafana Namespace
    • Collections in the Hetzner Namespace
    • Collections in the Hitachivantara Namespace
    • Collections in the Hpe Namespace
    • Collections in the Ibm Namespace
    • Collections in the Ieisystem Namespace
    • Collections in the Infinidat Namespace
    • Collections in the Infoblox Namespace
    • Collections in the Inspur Namespace
    • Collections in the Junipernetworks Namespace
    • Collections in the Kaytus Namespace
    • Collections in the Kubernetes Namespace
    • Collections in the Kubevirt Namespace
    • Collections in the Lowlydba Namespace
    • Collections in the Mellanox Namespace
    • Collections in the Microsoft Namespace
    • Collections in the Netapp Namespace
    • Collections in the Netapp_eseries Namespace
    • Collections in the Netbox Namespace
    • Collections in the Ngine_io Namespace
    • Collections in the Openstack Namespace
    • Collections in the Openvswitch Namespace
    • Collections in the Ovirt Namespace
    • Collections in the Purestorage Namespace
    • Collections in the Sensu Namespace
    • Collections in the Servicenow Namespace
    • Collections in the Splunk Namespace
    • Collections in the T_systems_mms Namespace
    • Collections in the Telekom_mms Namespace
    • Collections in the Theforeman Namespace
    • Collections in the Vmware Namespace
    • Collections in the Vultr Namespace
    • Collections in the Vyos Namespace
    • Collections in the Wti Namespace
  • Indexes of all modules and plugins
  • Playbook Keywords
  • Return Values
  • Ansible Configuration Settings
  • Controlling how Ansible behaves: precedence rules
  • YAML Syntax
  • Python 3 Support
  • Interpreter Discovery
  • Releases and maintenance
  • Testing Strategies
  • Sanity Tests
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Glossary
  • Ansible Reference: Module Utilities
  • Special Variables
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • Ansible Automation Hub
  • Logging Ansible output

Roadmaps

  • Ansible Roadmap
  • ansible-core Roadmaps




Ansible
  • Collection Index
  • Collections in the Community Namespace
  • Community.General
  • community.general Filter Guide

community.general Filter Guide

The community.general collection offers several useful filter plugins.

  • Paths
  • Abstract transformations
    • Dictionaries
    • Grouping
    • Lists of dictionaries
    • Merging lists of dictionaries
    • Union, intersection and difference of lists
    • Counting elements in a sequence
  • Working with times
  • Working with versions
  • Creating identifiers
    • Hashids
    • Random MACs
  • Conversions
    • Parsing CSV files
    • Converting to JSON
  • Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
  • Working with Unicode
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