Re: [PLUG] Server date in Ansible/J2?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I just noticed I forgot to close this out.

Doug, thanks, I tried that but now I forget if it worked.  :-/

I ended up going with this "solution" which works, but is inefficient 
and ugly:
	image_date: "{{ lookup('pipe','date +%Y-%m-%d') }}"

That's basically the one I mentioned below, and I think it sucks, but 
I've wasted far more time on this than it really deserves, so I'm 
calling it.

On 07/05/2016 08:04 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> Try the register: command with a "connection: local" argument, perhaps? That will run only on the execution node.
> --
> Doug Stewart
>
> > On Jul 5, 2016, at 7:10 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have what seems to be a simple question that I can't find on the web.  How do I get the current date from the Ansible server into a J2 variable?  I know how to do it with {{ ansible_date_time.date }} but that's from the remote node at the time Ansible collected facts (which could be cached), NOT now on the server I'm running on.
> >
> > It should go without saying that I want the date in the only sane format (ISO-8601): CCYY-MM-DD.
> >
> > I found one "solution" that was a filter that shelled out and ran the `date` command, but that's just amazingly wrong and bad.  Python knows what time it is, so does Ansible, and so does J2.  Just...how do I get them to cough it up?
> >
> > Use case (this works, but it's remote node "setup" (get facts) time, not local server "now" time):
> >   - name: Update image_release file
> >     lineinfile:
> >       dest=..../image_release
> >       state=present
> >       insertbefore=BOF
> >       line='{{ ansible_date_time.date }} {{ image_release }}'
> >
> > There's got to be some way that's so fundamentally simple no one even bothers to document it because it's so obvious...except to me.

Later,
JP
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