DOCUMENTATION: name: from_yaml version_added: 'historical' short_description: Convert YAML string into variable structure description: - Converts a YAML string representation into an equivalent structured Ansible variable. - Ansible automatically converts YAML 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 L(Python pyyaml library, https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/)'s C(yaml.safe_load) function. options: _input: description: A YAML string. type: string required: true EXAMPLES: | # variable from string variable containing a YAML document {{ github_workflow | from_yaml}} # variable from string JSON document {{ '{"a": true, "b": 54, "c": [1,2,3]}' | from_yaml }} RETURN: _value: description: The variable resulting from deserializing the YAML document. type: raw