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Ansible regexp - ansible replace module 

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This is a automation staff using ansible, we used replace module of ansible and replace some value using a regular expression with loop so in this topic we will cover below points 

1 - how to use regex and replace particular fields from files ?

2 - how to use ansible replace module and remove information from file ?

3 - how to ansible regex search

4 - ansible replace module with regex and remove.

To learn more, visit our previews topic regarding the regular expression 

Regular expression Part 1 - Print number/digit, character, alphanumeric and special character

Regular expression Part 2 - Print all between double quote / print wildcard or all character between 

Ansible modules 

        1 - replace

        2 - copy

Logs file path

/var/logs/event.logs

Value we have to replace 

We have some PI Field in above logs file and we remove it, like

accountNumber
operator
custName
custID
cardHolder
card
Phone
Address

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To check ansible version 

ansible --version 

To Create a playbook  ( To know more about playbook creation click here ) 

Go to the ansible directory 

cd /etc/ansible

Create a file with yml extension, file name whatever you want

vi mask.yml

Full Content of file 

---

- hosts: 10.0.2.15

  tasks:

  - name: copy file in tmp directory

    copy:

      src: /var/log/event.log

      dest: /tmp/event.log

      remote_src: yes

  - name: mask PI data

    replace:

      path: /tmp/event.log

      regexp: '"{{ item }}":"[^"]*"'

      replace: '"{{ item }}":"REMOVED"'

    loop:

    - accountNumber

    - Address

    - operator

    - custName

    - cardHolder

    - card

    - Phone

    - custID

Explanations :

First tags we define a hosts, whew we want to execute the job and mask data

---

- hosts: 10.0.2.15

How to setup hosts / inventory - Click here

Second tags we defined the tasks for playbook, our first task should be create a backup before doing any configuration, so we used copy module to copy a file from actual location to /tmp  for masking the data.

  tasks:

  - name: copy file in tmp directory

    copy:

      src: /var/log/event.log

      dest: /tmp/event.log

      remote_src: yes

In second plays we used replace module with loop because we have multiple values in the file

How to use loop in ansible - Click Here

  - name: mask PI data

    replace:

      path: /tmp/event.log

      regexp: '"{{ item }}":"[^"]*"'

      replace: '"{{ item }}":"REMOVED"'

    loop:

    - accountNumber

    - Address

    - operator

    - custName

    - cardHolder

    - card

    - Phone

    - custID

To execute above playbook

ansible-playbook  mask.yml

So we successfully changed all the fields, nothing skipped 

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