to_uuid¶

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 2.9.

Synopsis¶

Use to generate namespaced Universal Unique ID.

Parameters¶

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input str required		String to use as base of the UUID.
namespace str	Default: 361E6D51-FAEC-444A-9079-341386DA8E2E	UUID namespace to use.

Examples¶

# To create a namespaced UUIDv5
uuid: "{{ string | to_uuid(namespace='11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555') }}"


# To create a namespaced UUIDv5 using the default Ansible namespace '361E6D51-FAEC-444A-9079-341386DA8E2E'
uuid: "{{ string | to_uuid }}"

Return Values¶

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	string	Generated UUID.