diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 13579e6..9a4a88d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Usage: jinja2 [options] <input template> <input data>
 Options:
   --version             show program's version number and exit
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
-  --format=FORMAT       format of input variables: auto, ini, json,
+  --format=FORMAT       format of input variables: auto, env, ini, json,
                         querystring, yaml, yml
   -e EXTENSIONS, --extension=EXTENSIONS
                         extra jinja2 extensions to load
@@ -26,8 +26,16 @@ Options:
                         Use only this section from the configuration
   --strict              Disallow undefined variables to be used within the
                         template
+  -a, --ansible         Enable support for Ansible filters
+  -o FILE, --outfile=FILE
+                        File to use for output. Default is stdout.
 ```
 
+## Optional Ansible support
+If `Ansible Core` is present, you can use Ansible filters within your templates.
+
+`$ pip install jinja2-cli[ansible]`
+
 ## Optional YAML support
 If `PyYAML` is present, you can use YAML as an input data source.
 
diff --git a/jinja2cli/cli.py b/jinja2cli/cli.py
index fa57ad9..d161c46 100644
--- a/jinja2cli/cli.py
+++ b/jinja2cli/cli.py
@@ -220,7 +220,55 @@ def _parse_env(data):
 }
 
 
-def render(template_path, data, extensions, strict=False):
+def _ansible_filter_loader(base_module, module_path=None):
+    from pkgutil import iter_modules
+    from jinja2.utils import import_string
+
+    if module_path is not None:
+        try:
+            parent_module = import_string(f"{base_module.__name__}.{module_path}.plugins.filter")
+        except ImportError:
+            print(f"Could not find collection '{module_path}', did you mean 'ansible.{module_path}'?")
+            raise
+    else:
+        parent_module = import_string(f"{base_module.__name__}.plugins.filter")
+
+    for module in iter_modules(parent_module.__path__):
+        filter_module = import_string(f"{parent_module.__name__}.{module.name}")
+        yield filter_module.FilterModule().filters()
+
+
+def _load_ansible_filters(collections=None):
+    try:
+        import ansible
+    except ImportError:
+        print("This feature requires the `ansible-core` package.")
+        raise
+
+    filters = dict()
+    for filter in _ansible_filter_loader(ansible):
+        filters.update(filter)
+
+    if collections is None:
+        return filters
+
+    collections_paths = os.environ.get("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS") or \
+            f"{os.path.expanduser('~/.ansible/collections')}:/usr/share/ansible/collections"
+    sys.path.extend(collections_paths.split(':'))
+    try:
+        import ansible_collections
+    except ImportError:
+        print("Could not find the `ansible_collections` module, please check the ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS environment variable.")
+        raise
+
+    for collection in collections:
+        for filter in _ansible_filter_loader(ansible_collections, collection):
+            filters.update(filter)
+
+    return filters
+
+
+def render(template_path, data, extensions, strict=False, ansible=None):
     from jinja2 import (
         __version__ as jinja_version,
         Environment,
@@ -246,6 +294,10 @@ def render(template_path, data, extensions, strict=False):
     )
     if strict:
         env.undefined = StrictUndefined
+    if ansible:
+        collections = set(ansible)
+        collections.discard('core') # only used because optparse doesn't support 0+ values
+        env.filters.update(_load_ansible_filters(collections))
 
     # Add environ global
     env.globals["environ"] = lambda key: force_text(os.environ.get(key))
@@ -336,7 +388,7 @@ def cli(opts, args):
 
         out = codecs.getwriter("utf8")(out)
 
-    out.write(render(template_path, data, extensions, opts.strict))
+    out.write(render(template_path, data, extensions, opts.strict, opts.ansible))
     out.flush()
     return 0
 
@@ -422,6 +474,14 @@ def main():
         dest="strict",
         action="store_true",
     )
+    parser.add_option(
+        "-a",
+        "--ansible",
+        help="Enable support for Ansible filters (--ansible core or --ansible <collection>)",
+        dest="ansible",
+        action="append",
+        default=[],
+    )
     parser.add_option(
         "-o",
         "--outfile",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ccade5d..c4bd972 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     license="BSD",
     install_requires=install_requires,
     extras_require={
+        "ansible": install_requires + ["ansible-core"],
         "yaml": install_requires + ["pyyaml"],
         "toml": install_requires + ["toml"],
         "xml": install_requires + ["xmltodict"],