CfgMgmtCamp 2026 Ghent

Don't Fear the Jinja - Beyond the Handlebars with Ansible
2026-02-02, 16:00–16:50, B.1.0.14

Jinja's tricky. Few things can so quickly evoke chutzpah, fear, and regret in the soul of a playbook author; often all at once! Join Ansible Core architect nitzmahone for a light-hearted exploration of some Jinja anti-patterns, and a dive into powerful new Jinja features enabled in recent Ansible Core releases. Learn to confidently embed handlebars in your automation without going "over the handlebars".

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On his 11th year of slinging playbooks, Matt Davis (aka nitzmahone) is an architect for the Ansible Core team at Red Hat. Based near Portland, Oregon USA, he spends most days under Ansible's hood working on new ways for our amazing community to automate all the things.

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