How can escape colon in a string within an Ansible YAML file?

Question

I want to change one line of my code in file /var/www/kibana/config.js during installation from

elasticsearch: \"http://\"+window.location.hostname+\":9200\"         


        

Answer 1

foo=bar is the more suitable format for a one-line directive, but as you're already spanning several lines with your parameters anyway, just change the = to :, and it won't fuss about having a colon in your string.

- name: Comment out elasticsearch the config.js to ElasticSearch server
  lineinfile:
    dest:     /var/www/kibana/config.js
    backrefs: true
    regexp:   'elasticsearch.* "http.*$'
    line:     'elasticsearch: "{{ elasticsearch_URL }}:{{ elasticsearch_port }}"'
    state:    present