[BUG] Ansible 12 is completely borked

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After fixing all sorts of unnecessary crap to make Ansible 12 happy, I stumbled on a show-stopper: various network config modules (at least ios_config and eos_config) no longer run the input file specified in the "src" parameter through Jinja2.

The "workaround" would be to create a local file from the config template and then use that local file in the xxx_config module, but I'm ready to go down that path only when it's evident beyond a reasonable doubt that the Ansible team completely lost touch with reality.

For the moment, I'll change the "gee, netlab initial does not work with Ansible 12" from warning into a fatal error.

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Any suggestions @jbemmel @DanPartelly?

[DanPartelly]

Indeed, this release of Ansible looks like a complete ****show. So this needs to be a two step process now, render the template , then apply the results of the rendering.

Maybe you could bypass the generation of the temporary file ? Not sure if it would really work

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Indeed, this release of Ansible looks like a complete ****show.

Amen.

Maybe you could bypass the generation of the temporary file ? Not sure if it would really work

It looks like the src argument has to be a file (which could be a template), so rendering the template and passing the results to x_config shouldn't work and even if it does, I'm not going down that path. There's also the tiny little issue of backward compatibility (even if the latest device collections accept rendered configurations, was that always the case?)