Harnessing the Power of Ansible Uppercase Text Automation

Elevating Automation: Ansible Playbooks for Text Uppercasing using upper filter

Introduction

In the ever-evolving landscape of IT automation, Ansible continues to be a go-to tool for simplifying and streamlining repetitive tasks. While traditionally known for its prowess in system configuration and infrastructure management, Ansible extends its capabilities to even the minutiae of text processing. In this article, we’ll explore a practical use case: automating the transformation of text to uppercase using an Ansible playbook.

The Uppercase Ansible Playbook

Below is an Ansible playbook named upper.yml designed to capitalize a given text and print the result on the screen.

---
- name: Uppercase
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    my_text: "hello world"
  tasks:
    - name: Print message on the screen
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "{{ my_text | upper }}"

Breaking down the playbook components:

• name: Describes the purpose of the playbook.
• hosts: Specifies the target hosts; in this case, it’s set to all for execution on all hosts defined in the inventory.