Escaping curly braces in a dictionary.

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Hi. I’m struggling to escape double curly braces in a dictionary. I’ve tried the {{ ‘{{’ }} blah {{ ‘}}’ }} method, tried using backslashes and also tried using {% raw %}{{blah}}{% endraw %}
I need to be able to do this as datadog uses curly braces in its alerts as macros.

Here’s an example I’m using to debug:

vars/main.yml:

datadog_alerts:

  • name: “Testy test test McTest {{ ‘{{’ }}host.name{{ ‘}}’ }}”
    query: “‘testhost.status’.over(‘*’).by(‘check’,‘id’).last(2).count_by_status()”
    type: service check
    message: ‘Testy test test test test’

tasks/main.yml:

  • name: List datadog monitors
    debug: “{{ item.type }} {{ item.name }} {{ item.query }}”
    with_items: datadog_alerts

Running that play (Ansible v2.1.0) results in:

TASK [datadog-alerts : List datadog monitors] **********************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“failed”: true, “msg”: “ERROR! ERROR! ‘host’ is undefined”}

as it’s trying to interpolate host.name.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this?

Regards,

Brian