How to import JSON file from a remote host into Ansible variable?

I am using ansible.builtin.slurp to do this. Here is the relevant part of my Ansible role:

- name: Load config    slurp:      src: "/etc/mlnx_snap/mlnx_snap.json"    register: imported_config  - name: Debug    debug:      var: imported_config  

I expect to have debug print my file, however, something different happens. Here's the file content:

root@ratchet01-snic:~# cat /etc/mlnx_snap/mlnx_snap.json  {      "ctrl": {          "sqes": 0x6,          "cqes": 0x4,          "cq_period": 3,          "cq_max_count": 6,          "nr_io_queues": 32,          "mn": "Mellanox BlueField NVMe SNAP Controller",          "sn": "MNC12",          "mdts": 4,          "oncs": 0,          "offload": false,          "max_namespaces": 0,          "quirks": 0x0      },      "backends": [ {          "type": "spdk_bdev",          "paths": [{}]      } ]  }  

And here is what the debug output looks like:

Debug...    retchet01-snic.mtr.labs.mlnx ok: {      "changed": false,      "imported_config": {          "changed": false,          "content": "LyoKICogcHJ...CiAgICB9IF0KfQo=",          "encoding": "base64",          "failed": false,          "source": "/etc/mlnx_snap/mlnx_snap.json"      }  }  

Content is actually thousands of characters long, I just shortened it for readability.

Imagine I have a following task further in this role:

- name: Do x    module_name:      var_name: value    when: imported_config.ctrl.quirks >= 0  

How do I correctly import the JSON file so that such a task could work? What am I doing wrong?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67237737/how-to-import-json-file-from-a-remote-host-into-ansible-variable April 24, 2021 at 07:01AM