Makejinja advantages over using the Ansible template module

[onedr0p]

Here are some of my thoughts on why I switched from using Ansible to Makejinja. Keep in mind I was only using Ansible for templating files and data validation.

• Speed: Templating a ton of files with Ansible is very, very slow and will only continue to get slower with more files. With my project and using the with file tree Ansible module 200 files would take 2 minutes with Ansible whereas makejinja takes seconds.
• Do not create a file that's not needed: Ansible would create 0 byte files if the template didn't need to be rendered.
• Makejinja is more lightweight and extendable than Ansible and the developer is more approachable than the Ansible (RedHat) maintainers when running into problems.

That pretty much sums it up, I'm sure there are more reasons and I'll update this post if I recall any 🙂