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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 71

Override content of File in ansible

I'm trying to gather facts for AWS VPC ID in file using the lineinfile module in ansible. But every time I gather those facts, it only creates new VPC ID in file but I need to override existing/previous VPC ID with new ID , so at a time I'm looking for only new VPC ID. How could I accomplish it ?

I used the below play but it doesn't working for me:

  - name: VPN facts
    ec2_vpc_vpn_info:
       region: "{{ region }}"
       aws_access_key: "{{ aws_access_key }}"
       aws_secret_key: "{{ aws_secret_key }}"
    register: vpn_facts
  

  - name: add vpn facts into file
    lineinfile:
      path: vpn_facts.yaml
      state: present
      regex: "vpn_id"
      line: "vpn_id: {{ vpn_facts.vpn_connections[0].vpn_connection_id }}"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 94

Answers (1)

Houssem AZZOUZ
Houssem AZZOUZ

Reputation: 191

If you are using a version of Ansible that is 2.11 or newer, you can use the 'search_string' attribute instead of regex. It will replace the last line that contains the search_string value with the value of the 'line' attribute.

  - name: VPN facts
    ec2_vpc_vpn_info:
       region: "{{ region }}"
       aws_access_key: "{{ aws_access_key }}"
       aws_secret_key: "{{ aws_secret_key }}"
    register: vpn_facts
  

  - name: add vpn facts into file
    lineinfile:
      path: vpn_facts.yaml
      state: present
      search_string: "vpn_id"
      line: "vpn_id: {{ vpn_facts.vpn_connections[0].vpn_connection_id }}"

Upvotes: 2

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