MiniScript is an embedded scripting language with the syntax heavily inspired by Ansible, but targeted at data processing rather than remote execution. MiniScript aims to keep the familiar look-and-feel while being trivial to embed and to extend.
Compared to real Ansible, MiniScript does NOT have:
- Roles, playbooks or any other form of reusability.
- "Batteries included" set of actions and filters.
- Any local or remote execution facility.
- Notifications, parallel execution or other advanced features.
MiniScript does offer:
- Loops, variables, conditions and blocks.
- Jinja2 templating integration.
- Lean and easily extensible feature set.
- A few filters most useful for data processing.
- An ability to return a value from a script.
- Ansible-compatible backslash handling.
- 100% unit test coverage.
- A permissive license (BSD).
Note
MiniScript does not use Ansible directly, nor does it import any Ansible code. We are also not aiming for perfect compatibility and do diverge in some aspects.
- Documentation: https://miniscript.readthedocs.io
- Source: https://github.com/dtantsur/miniscript
- Author: Dmitry Tantsur
- License: BSD (3-clause)
