md5

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

• Returns an L(MD5 hash, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5) of the input data

Parameters

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input raw required		data to hash

Notes

Note

• This requires the MD5 algorithm to be available on the system, security contexts like FIPS might prevent this.
• MD5 has long been deemed insecure and is not recommended for security related uses.

Examples

# md5hash => "ae2b1fca515949e5d54fb22b8ed95575"
md5hash: "{{ 'testing' | md5 }}"

Return Values

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	string	The MD5 hash of the input.