Ansible filter to read or write LDIF.
Install this Ansible Filter:
- via
pip:
pip install ansible-filters-ldif- via
ansible-galaxy:
ansible-galaxy install 'git+https://github.com/atterdag/ansible-filters-ldif.git'Ansible filters always runs on localhost.
Convert dictionary to LDIF
---
- name: Create dictionary with entries
set_fact:
dictionary:
- - dc=example,dc=com
- dc:
- example
description:
- This is a line longer than 79 characters, so LDIF breaks it up over multiple lines
o:
- example.com
objectClass:
- dcObject
- organization
- - ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
- objectClass:
- organizationalUnit
ou:
- people
- - cn=Jane Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
- cn:
- Jane Doe
mail:
- jane.doe@example.com
objectClass:
- inetOrgPerson
sn:
- Doe
- - cn=John Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
- cn:
- John Doe
mail:
- john.doe@example.com
objectClass:
- inetOrgPerson
sn:
- Doe
- - ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com
- objectClass:
- organizationalUnit
ou:
- groups
- - cn=users,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com
- cn:
- users
member:
- cn=Jane Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
- cn=John Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass:
- groupOfNames
- name: "Convert dictionary to LDIF while writing it to /tmp/test.ldif using 'to_ldif' filter"
copy:
content: "{{ dictionary | to_ldif }}"
dest: "/tmp/test.ldif"Convert LDIF to JSON
---
- name: "Create multi-line string variable with LDIF data"
set_fact:
ldif: |
dn: dc=example,dc=com
dc: example
description: This is one line which is longer than
79 characters, so LDIF breaks it up over multiple lines
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
o: example.com
dn: ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: people
dn: cn=Jane Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: Jane Doe
sn: Doe
mail: jane.doe@example.com
dn: cn=John Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: John Doe
sn: Doe
mail: john.doe@example.com
dn: ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: groups
dn: cn=users,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: groupOfNames
cn: users
member: cn=Jane Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
member: cn=John Doe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
- name: "Convert string to JSON while writing it to /tmp/test.json using 'from_ldif' filter"
copy:
content: "{{ (ldif | from_ldif) | to_nice_json }}"
dest: "/tmp/test.json"Install the following OS development packages first.
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev python2-dev python3-dev
mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 python3-development
pip install --requirement requirements.txt
gem install travis fry