Ansible - Template module

About

The template module is an Action Plugin module.

Process

constructs a file in a temporary location on the controller using variables from the playbook environment or from the user
transfers the temporary file to a temporary file on the remote system
invokes the copy module which operates on the remote system to move the file into its final location, sets file permissions, and so on.

Example

Template action

  - name: " User - Create the conf variable file"
    become: yes
    become_user: '{{ user_login_user }}'
    template:
      src: './user/user/user_conf.sh'
      dest: '/home/{{ user_login_user }}/{{ user_login_user }}_conf.sh'
      owner: '{{ user_login_user }}'
      group: '{{ user_login_user }}'
      mode: 0770
    when: "'dev' in group_names or 'tst' in group_names" # only for the dev/test environment

Template language

{% if not registry_enabled %}
    enabled = no
{% elif registry_enabled %}
    enabled = yes
{% endif %}