This is a test of various filter plugins found in Ansible (ex: core.py), and not so much a test of the core filters in Jinja2. Dumping the same structure to YAML {{ some_structure | to_nice_yaml }} Dumping the same structure to JSON, but don't pretty print {{ some_structure | to_json(sort_keys=true) }} Dumping the same structure to YAML, but don't pretty print {{ some_structure | to_yaml }} From a recorded task, the changed, failed, success, and skipped tests are shortcuts to ask if those tasks produced changes, failed, succeeded, or skipped (as one might guess). Changed = {{ some_registered_var is changed }} Failed = {{ some_registered_var is failed }} Success = {{ some_registered_var is successful }} Skipped = {{ some_registered_var is skipped }} The mandatory filter fails if a variable is not defined and returns the value. To avoid breaking this test, this variable is already defined. a = {{ a | mandatory }} There are various casts available int = {{ a | int }} bool = {{ 1 | bool }} String quoting quoted = {{ 'quoted' | quote }} The fileglob module returns the list of things matching a pattern. fileglob = {{ (playbook_dir + '/files/fileglob/*') | fileglob | map('basename') | sort | join(', ') }} There are also various string operations that work on paths. These do not require files to exist and are passthrus to the python os.path functions /etc/motd with basename = {{ '/etc/motd' | basename }} /etc/motd with dirname = {{ '/etc/motd' | dirname }} path_join_simple = {{ ('/etc', 'subdir', 'test') | path_join }} path_join_with_slash = {{ ('/etc', 'subdir', '/test') | path_join }} path_join_relative = {{ ('etc', 'subdir', 'test') | path_join }} TODO: realpath follows symlinks. There isn't a test for this just now. TODO: add tests for set theory operations like union regex_replace = {{ 'foo' | regex_replace('^foo', 'bar') }} # Check regex_replace with multiline {{ '#foo\n#foot' | regex_replace('^#foo', '#bar', multiline=True) }} regex_search = {{ 'test_value_0001' | regex_search('([0-9]+)$')}} regex_findall = {{ 'car\ntar\nfoo\nbar\n' | regex_findall('^.ar$', multiline=True)|to_json }} regex_escape = {{ '^f.*o(.*)$' | regex_escape() }}