bool

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 historical.

Synopsis

• Attempt to cast the input into a boolean (V(True) or V(False)) value.

Parameters

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input raw required		Data to cast.

Examples

# in vars
vars:
  isbool: "{{ (a == b) | bool }} "
  otherbool: "{{ anothervar | bool }} "

# in a task
...
when: some_string_value | bool

Return Values

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	bool	The boolean resulting of casting the input expression into a V(True) or V(False) value.