While Ansible is busy fighting its own internal battle not to become a fully fledged programming language, instead remaining as simple and purely declarative as possible, it is still often necessary to work with more complex data structures. This is where the Jinja2 and Ansible filters can really shine.
Recently I stumbled across the Ansible json_query filter as a very neat solution to a problem that would have been otherwise messy to solve in Ansible. The filter is already well-documented, but I thought I would share a few examples of how it came in handy for me.
