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Petr
Petr

Reputation: 14505

How to process output from Ansible using local script

I want to run some command that return some data and process these data somehow with a script that is located on ansible server. How could I do that?

For example:

I want to run

ansible all -a "cat /etc/redhat-release"

Then I want to call script called version_parser.py (located on local ansible server, not host where ansible is executing the command) with parameters name_of_server and pipe the output of this call as input.

So that in reality I get something similar like

ssh server1 "cat /etc/redhat-release" | version_parser.py server1
ssh server2 "cat /etc/redhat-release" | version_parser.py server2
...

What is most easy approach to do something like this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5049

Answers (1)

fishi0x01
fishi0x01

Reputation: 3769

You could run the remote command and store the result in a variable. Next you can run a local_action and execute your local script with the stored variable:

---
- name: Run remote command
  command: "bash -c 'ls -l /etc/init.d/a* | grep -c app'"
  register: store

- name: Run result against local script
  local_action: "shell echo '{{ store.stdout }}' | /path/to/local/parser.py {{ inventory_hostname }}"

Upvotes: 4

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