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Published: **October 3, 2016 - 5:19 PM**

Hello,

I'd like to know if there's some kind of templating engine.

For example, in a configuration file, you could put "{{ hostname }}" and it would retrieve the hostname.

This would allow for the generation of unique configuration files for each workstation. I haven't found much information on this. If anyone has any, I'd be interested.

And even if some people have workarounds, I'd be interested too.

Thanks in advance!

Published: **October 5, 2016 - 11:50 AM**

I'm going to answer myself in order to perhaps help other users

Jinja2 is present on each machine with the clients, so it is possible to use this library to create configuration templates.

Here is an excerpt from the package using Jinja2:

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from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader

THIS_DIR = os.getcwd()
j2_env = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader(THIS_DIR),
                         trim_blocks=True)
template = j2_env.get_template('template.yml')
file = open('config.yml', 'w')
file.write(template.render(value="Une valeur"))
file.close()

And in my template.yml file there's something like this:

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# template.yml

server_url: https://exemple.com
agent_name : {{ value }}

Therefore, during execution, we can put a variable in the field of the value to be applied to the template.

This is a very simple example, but it might help

Published: **October 26, 2016 - 2:31 PM**

Thanks for the info, I didn't even know it included Jinja2 to be able to make templates, which can be very useful for managing workstations.

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