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James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Jesse Keating
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Jesse Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.
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Control structures

In Jinja2, a control structure refers to the statements in a template that control the flow of the engine parsing the template. These structures include conditionals, loops, and macros. Within Jinja2 (assuming the defaults are in use), a control structure will appear inside blocks of {% ... %}. These opening and closing blocks alert the Jinja2 parser that a control statement has been provided instead of a normal string or variable name.

Conditionals

A conditional within a template creates a decision path. The engine will consider the conditional and choose from two or more potential blocks of code. There is always a minimum of two: a path if the conditional is met (evaluated as true), and either an explicitly defined else path if the conditional is not met (evaluated as false) or, alternatively, an implied else path consisting of an empty block.

The statement for a conditional is the if statement. This...

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James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Jesse Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.
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