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Life & fun · January 21, 2018

Ansible and Cloudformation – Jinja2 templates and a full dry-run

Ansible role to render an arbitrary number of Jinja2 templates into cloudformation files and create any number of stacks. - cytopia/ansible-role-cloudformation

Ansible and Cloudformation – Jinja2 templates and a full dry-run launched on January 21, 2018 with 11 votes, #1,027 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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In plain words

This tool combines Ansible and CloudFormation with Jinja2 templating to enable infrastructure management with full dry-run capabilities. It is designed for developers and operations engineers who want to preview changes before deploying cloud infrastructure. The standout feature is the ability to perform complete test runs, allowing users to validate configurations and catch issues before they affect production environments.

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