Ansible: Insert line if not exists

Question

I\'m trying insert a line in a property file using ansible. I want to add some property if it does not exist, but not replace it if such property already exists in the file.

Answer 1

Same idea as presented here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/40890850/7231194

Steps are:

• Try to replace the line.
• If replace mod change it, restore
• If replace mod doesn't change, add the line

Example

# Vars
- name: Set parameters
  set_fact:
    ipAddress    : "127.0.0.1"
    lineSearched : "couchbase.host={{ ipAddress }}"
    lineModified : "couchbase.host={{ ipAddress }} hello"

# Tasks
- name: Try to replace the line
  replace:
    dest    : /dir/file
    replace : '{{ lineModified }} '
    regexp  : '{{ lineSearched }}$'
    backup  : yes
 register  : checkIfLineIsHere

# If the line not is here, I add it
- name: Add line
  lineinfile:
  state   : present
  dest    : /dir/file
  line    : '{{ lineSearched }}'
  regexp  : ''
  insertafter: EOF
when: checkIfLineIsHere.changed == false

# If the line is here, I still want this line in the file, Then restore it
- name: Restore the searched line.
  lineinfile:
    state   : present
    dest    : /dir/file
    line    : '{{ lineSearched }}'
    regexp  : '{{ lineModified }}$'
  when: checkIfLineIsHere.changed