How to update YAML file with Ansible
Recently I had a task to update YAML file with ansible. I thought that there is already an Ansible module that does it, but I couldn't find any. Anyway it turned out that it is quite simple to do it with python. You just have to create a python file which you execute in Ansible. Here is the python file: import collections import io import sys import yaml filename = str(sys.argv[1]) snippet = yaml.load(sys.argv[2]) with io.open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf8') as f: yaml_dict = yaml.load(f) or {} def deep_update(source, overrides): for key, value in overrides.iteritems(): if isinstance(value, collections.Mapping) and value: returned = deep_update(source.get(key, {}), value) source[key] = returned else: source[key] = overrides[key] return source deep_update(yaml_dict, snippet) with io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf8') as f: yaml.dump(yaml_dict, f, default_flow_style=Fals...