How do I get an Ansible template to honor new lines after a conditional

Question

The template looks like this:

solr.replication.master=
    {% if ansible_eth0.ipv4.address == servermaster.eth0 %}
        false
    {% else %}
        true
         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue. I solved it by adding

{{''}}

to the end of the line, for example:

solr.replication.master={% if ansible_eth0.ipv4.address == servermaster.eth0 %}false{% else %}true{% endif %}{{''}}

This inserts an empty string literal, with the side effect that whitespace is not stripped.