Comparing versions with ansible

playbook.yml

---
- name: Comparing Semantic versions
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:

    - name: a < b
      assert:
        that:
          - "{{ item.a is version_compare(item.b, '<') }}"
      with_items:
        - a: "6.6.6"
          b: "7.0"
        - a: "6.5.10"
          b: "6.6"

    - name: not a < b
      assert:
        that:
          - "{{ item.a is not version_compare(item.b, '<') }}"
      with_items:
        - a: "7.0"
          b: "6.9"
        - a: "7.0.0"
          b: "6.9.10"
        - a: "6.7.6"
          b: "6.6.7"