Ansible: print role name inside template
UPDATE 3: Starting from ansible 2.8 there is a special variable role_name.
UPDATE 2: @sivel noticed much easier way to do it: {{ role_path | basename }}.
UPDATE: I created a feature request, asking for ansible guys to make special variable ansible_role: #25447.
Ansible guys suppose to use {{ ansible_managed }} inside templates to indicate where it came from. Unfortunately, this variable contains date and time, so it is changed on every playbook run. That breaks --check mode.
I prefer to include role name in template, so you can see where it came from. If you hard-code it, after refactoring that will become broken. Here is how you can generate it dynamicaly:
# Generated by ansible role: {{ role_path | regex_replace('^.*/([^/]+)$', '\\1') }}
It’s a bit clumsy, but it will never break.
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