ansible.utils.ipwrap filter – This filter is designed to Wrap IPv6 addresses in [ ] brackets.

Note

This filter plugin is part of the ansible.utils collection (version 5.1.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.utils.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.utils.ipwrap.

New in ansible.utils 2.5.0

Synopsis

  • Some configuration files require IPv6 addresses to be “wrapped” in square brackets ([ ]).To accomplish that,

  • you can use the ipwrap() filter.It will wrap all IPv6 addresses and leave any other strings intact.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the filter. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following example: input | ansible.utils.ipwrap(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

query

string

You can provide a single argument to each ipwrap() filter.

The filter will then treat it as a query and return values modified by that query.

Default: ""

value

any / required

list of subnets or individual address or any other values input. Example. [‘192.24.2.1’, ‘host.fqdn’, ‘::1’, ‘192.168.32.0/24’, ‘fe80::100/10’, True, ‘’, ‘42540766412265424405338506004571095040/64’]

Examples

#### examples
# Ipwrap filter plugin o Wrap IPv6 addresses in [ ] brackets.
- name: Set value as input list
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    value:
      - 192.24.2.1
      - host.fqdn
      - ::1
      - ''
      - 192.168.32.0/24
      - fe80::100/10
      - 42540766412265424405338506004571095040/64
      - true
- debug:
    msg: "{{ value|ansible.utils.ipwrap }}"

- name: |
        ipwrap() did not filter out non-IP address values, which is usually what you want when for example
        you are mixing IP addresses with hostnames. If you still want to filter out all non-IP address values,
        you can chain both filters together.
  debug:
    msg: "{{ value|ansible.utils.ipaddr|ansible.utils.ipwrap  }}"

# PLAY [Ipwrap filter plugin o Wrap IPv6 addresses in [ ] brackets.] ***************************************************
# TASK [Set value as input list] ***************************************************************************************
# ok: [localhost] => {"ansible_facts": {"value": ["192.24.2.1", "host.fqdn", "::1", "", "192.168.32.0/24",
# "fe80::100/10", "42540766412265424405338506004571095040/64", true]}, "changed": false}
#
# TASK [debug] ********************************************************************************************************
# ok: [localhost] => {
#     "msg": [
#         "192.24.2.1",
#         "::1",
#         "192.168.32.0/24",
#         "fe80::100/10",
#         "2001:db8:32c:faad::/64"
#     ]
# }
#
# TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************************
# ok: [localhost] => {
#     "msg": [
#         "192.24.2.1",
#         "host.fqdn",
#         "[::1]",
#         "",
#         "192.168.32.0/24",
#         "[fe80::100]/10",
#         "[2001:db8:32c:faad::]/64",
#         "True"
#     ]
# }
#
# TASK [ipwrap() did not filter out non-IP address values, which is usually what you want when for example
# you are mixing IP addresses with hostnames. If you still want to filter out all non-IP address values,
# you can chain both filters together.] ***
# ok: [localhost] => {
#     "msg": [
#         "192.24.2.1",
#         "[::1]",
#         "192.168.32.0/24",
#         "[fe80::100]/10",
#         "[2001:db8:32c:faad::]/64"
#     ]
# }

Return Value

Key

Description

data

any

Returns values valid for a particular query.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ashwini Mhatre (@amhatre)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.