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Ansible Role: blockinfile

This role contains no tasks, but provides blockinfile module which might be useful when you want to maintain multi-line snippets in config files in /etc.

Ansible Galaxy Page: https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/1475

Request for review: The pull request to ansible-modules-extras has been made to include blockinfile module in the official distribution of Ansible, which enables you to use blockinfile as a standard module without this role!

If you use this module and feel it's useful, please leave some endorsement comments on the PR. I greatly appreciate if you're an eligible reviewer (existing module author) and could take some time to review the PR, otherwise if you could ask reviewers of your acquiaintance for the review. It needs two +1 votes from reviewers in order to be nominated for inclusion.

blockinfile Module

This module will insert/update/remove a block of multi-line text surrounded by the marker lines.

Example task:

- blockinfile:
    dest: /etc/network/interfaces
    block: |
      iface eth0 inet static
          address 192.168.0.1
          netmask 255.255.255.0

Text inserted/updated by the task in /etc/network/interfaces:

# BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.0.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0
# END ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK

It uses marker lines # {BEGIN/END} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK as default. You can specify alternative marker lines by marker option when you need to update files in other formats like HTML, or run multiple blockinfile tasks on the same file.

Options

If this section doesn't show nicely in Ansible Galaxy Page, please refer to equivalent in GitHub Page.

parameter required default choices comments
backup
no no
  • yes
  • no
Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
block
no
    The text to insert inside the marker lines. If it's missing or an empty string, the block will be removed as if state were specified to absent.

    aliases: content
    create
    no no
    • yes
    • no
    Create a new file if it doesn't exist.
    dest
    yes
      The file to modify.

      aliases: name, destfile
      follow
      (added in 1.8)
      no no
      • yes
      • no
      This flag indicates that filesystem links, if they exist, should be followed.
      group
      no
        name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown
        insertafter
        no EOF
        • EOF
        • *regex*
        If specified, the block will be inserted after the last match of specified regular expression. A special value is available; EOF for inserting the block at the end of the file. If specified regular expresion has no matches, EOF will be used instead.
        insertbefore
        no
        • BOF
        • *regex*
        If specified, the block will be inserted before the last match of specified regular expression. A special value is available; BOF for inserting the block at the beginning of the file. If specified regular expresion has no matches, the block will be inserted at the end of the file.
        marker
        no # {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK
          The marker line template. "{mark}" will be replaced with "BEGIN" or "END".
          mode
          no
            mode the file or directory should be. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers (like 0644). Leaving off the leading zero will likely have unexpected results. As of version 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r).
            owner
            no
              name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown
              selevel
              no s0
                level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range. _default feature works as for seuser.
                serole
                no
                  role part of SELinux file context, _default feature works as for seuser.
                  setype
                  no
                    type part of SELinux file context, _default feature works as for seuser.
                    seuser
                    no
                      user part of SELinux file context. Will default to system policy, if applicable. If set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available
                      state
                      no present
                      • present
                      • absent
                      Whether the block should be there or not.
                      validate
                      no None
                        The validation command to run before copying into place. The path to the file to validate is passed in via '%s' which must be present as in the example below. The command is passed securely so shell features like expansion and pipes won't work.

                        Examples

                        - name: insert/update "Match User" configuation block in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
                          blockinfile:
                            dest: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
                            block: |
                              Match User ansible-agent
                              PasswordAuthentication no
                        - name: insert/update eth0 configuration stanza in /etc/network/interfaces
                                (it might be better to copy files into /etc/network/interfaces.d/)
                          blockinfile:
                            dest: /etc/network/interfaces
                            block: |
                              iface eth0 inet static
                                  address 192.168.0.1
                                  netmask 255.255.255.0
                        - name: insert/update HTML surrounded by custom markers after <body> line
                          blockinfile:
                            dest: /var/www/html/index.html
                            marker: "<!-- {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK -->"
                            insertafter: "<body>"
                            content: |
                              <h1>Welcome to {{ansible_hostname}}</h1>
                              <p>Last updated on {{ansible_date_time.iso8601}}</p>
                        - name: remove HTML as well as surrounding markers
                          blockinfile:
                            dest: /var/www/html/index.html
                            marker: "<!-- {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK -->"
                            content: ""

                        Requirements

                        None.

                        Role Variables

                        None.

                        Dependencies

                        None.

                        Example Playbook

                        Complete playbook that makes SSH password authentication for specific user prohibited, then restarts sshd if needed.

                        ---
                        - hosts: all
                          remote_user: ansible-agent
                          sudo: yes
                          roles:
                            - yaegashi.blockinfile
                          tasks:
                            - name: Prohibit SSH password authentication for $SUDO_USER
                              blockinfile:
                                dest: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
                                backup: yes
                                content: |
                                  Match User {{ansible_env.SUDO_USER}}
                                  PasswordAuthentication no
                              notify: Restart sshd
                          handlers:
                            - name: Restart sshd
                              service
                                name: ssh
                                state: restarted

                        License

                        GPLv3+

                        Author Information

                        YAEGASHI Takeshi

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