Ansible stdout Formatting

Question

Assuming the below tasks:

shell: \"some_script.sh\" register: \"some_script_result\"

debug: msg: \"Output: {{ some_script_result.stdout_li

Answer 1

Another option:

https://blog.alexgittings.com/improving-the-ansible-output-with-anstomlog/

just store it inside ansible/ansible.cfg

➜ tree ansible     
ansible
├── ansible.cfg
├── callbacks
│   ├── anstomlog.py
└── playbooks
    └── nginx.yaml

ANSIBLE_CONFIG=ansible/ansible.cfg ansible-playbook -u centos --private-key .ssh/key -i `terraform output bastion_ip`, ansible/playbooks/nginx.yaml

Answer 2

I was trying do the following changes, still i did not got the output format of yaml or debug options output properly. Later i found the ansible user configuration pick up it from user's config file. So i changed callbacks at user specific location and it worked.

[automation@ansibleserver ~]$ ansible --version
   ansible 2.9.9
   config file = /home/automation/ansible.cfg


# Use the YAML callback plugin.
   stdout_callback = yaml
# Use the stdout_callback when running ad-hoc commands.
bin_ansible_callbacks = True

So ensure, even though you changed at /etc/ansible/ansible.conf , try at user's config file too to get the good result. instead of yaml , debug also gives good helpful format ( for linux users)

Answer 3

Try this option. You’ll love it.

There's a new YAML callback plugin introduced with Ansible 2.5 — meaning any machine running Ansible 2.5.0 or later can automatically start using this format without installing custom plugins.

To use it, edit your ansible.cfg file (either global, in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, or a local one in your playbook/project), and add the following lines under the [defaults] section:

# Use the YAML callback plugin.
stdout_callback = yaml
# Use the stdout_callback when running ad-hoc commands.
bin_ansible_callbacks = True

Now I can easily read through your output message

Answer 4

Here is bug report about an issue:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27078 - why is ansible's default output not more human readable... stilll?

The possible answers:

[defaults]
nocows = True
# minimal, debug, yaml
stdout_callback = yaml

or:

ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=debug ansible-playbook ....