Ansible render jinja2 file

Snippet to render jinja files

ansible-playbook render-j2.yml -e @ansible-extra-vars-new.json -e "in=ks8-deploy-nginx.j2 out=nginx.yml"

(ansible-venv) bash-4.4# cat render-j2.yml

---

- hosts: localhost

  connection: local

  tasks:

          - name: Render config for host

            template:

                    src: "{{ in }}"

                    dest: "{{ out }}"

(ansible-venv) bash-4.4#

Render multiple files in loop, as args hardcoded in playbook

tasks:

          - name: Render config for host

            template:

                    src: "{{ item.in }}"

                    dest: "{{ item.out }}"

            loop:

                    - { in: myfile1.j2, out: myfile1.yml }

                    - { in: myfile2.j2, out: myfile2.yml }

                    - { in: myfileN.j2, out: myfileN.yml }