community.general/docs/json/template.json

{
  "requirements": null, 
  "description": [
    "Templates are processed by the Jinja2 templating language (U(http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/)) - documentation on the template formatting can be found in the Template Designer Documentation (U(http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/))."
  ], 
  "author": "Michael DeHaan", 
  "notes": [
    "Since Ansible version 0.9, templates are loaded with C(trim_blocks=True)."
  ], 
  "module": "template", 
  "filename": "library/template", 
  "examples": [
    {
      "code": "template src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf owner=bin group=wheel mode=0644", 
      "description": "Example from Ansible Playbooks"
    }
  ], 
  "docuri": "template", 
  "short_description": "Templates a file out to a remote server.", 
  "now_date": "2012-10-09", 
  "options": {
    "dest": {
      "default": null, 
      "required": true, 
      "description": [
        "Location to render the template to on the remote machine."
      ]
    }, 
    "src": {
      "default": null, 
      "required": true, 
      "description": [
        "Path of a Jinja2 formatted template on the local server. This can be a relative or absolute path."
      ], 
      "aliases": []
    }, 
    "backup": {
      "default": "no", 
      "required": false, 
      "description": [
        "Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly."
      ], 
      "choices": [
        "yes", 
        "no"
      ]
    }, 
    "others": {
      "required": false, 
      "description": [
        "all arguments accepted by the M(file) module also work here"
      ]
    }
  }, 
  "ansible_version": "0.8"
}