hash¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version 1.9.

Synopsis¶

Returns a configurable hash of the input data. Uses L(SHA-1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1) by default.

Parameters¶

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input raw required		Data to checksum.
hashtype string	Default: sha1	Type of algorithm to produce the hash. The list of available choices depends on the installed Python's hashlib.

Examples¶

# sha1_hash => "109f4b3c50d7b0df729d299bc6f8e9ef9066971f"
sha1_hash: {{ 'test2' | hash('sha1') }}
# md5 => "5a105e8b9d40e1329780d62ea2265d8a"
md5: {{ 'test2' | hash('md5') }}

Return Values¶

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	string	The checksum of the input, as configured in O(hashtype).