DOCUMENTATION: name: from_json version_added: 'historical' short_description: Convert JSON string into variable structure description: - Converts a JSON string representation into an equivalent structured Ansible variable. - Ansible automatically converts JSON strings into variable structures in most contexts, use this plugin in contexts where automatic conversion does not happen. notes: - This filter functions as a wrapper to the Python C(json.loads) function. options: _input: description: A JSON string. type: string required: true EXAMPLES: | # variable from string variable containing a JSON document {{ docker_config | from_json }} # variable from string JSON document {{ '{"a": true, "b": 54, "c": [1,2,3]}' | from_json }} RETURN: _value: description: The variable resulting from deserialization of the JSON document. type: raw