Is Ansible Turing Completed?

Question

Ansible offers many filters and conventions. As far as I can judge; It should be possible to implement Ansible playbook, which performs a set of tasks that achieve the same result as the Turing Complete language. So, is Turing completed?

Answer 1

I think this is right.

• Ansible can generate yaml files and run on it (both can be executed as local_action ), which is the rough equivalent of the eval() function.
• Ansible can create lists and iterate over them. Together with include_role it opens the possibility of running arbitrary complex code in a loop (with conditions).
• Together with the until keyword, it allows you to create a classic while / until loop.
• block with a where statement allows branching. Even inside the loops.

In addition, playbook-related plugins are considered a valid way to expand the playlist, so they provide full python functions.