Get the pid of a running playbook for use within the playbook

Question

When we run a playbook, with verbose output enabled, in the ansible logs we can see something like this:

2016-02-03 12:51:58,235 p=4105 u=root | PLAY RECAP

Answer 1

If you will be using the pid in different plays, just add it to the setup module.

setup_result['ansible_facts']['ansible_pid'] = os.getpid()

and it will always be available.

    "ansible_os_family": "Debian",
    "ansible_pid": 27930,
    "ansible_pkg_mgr": "apt",