CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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SSF
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Reputation: 983

Display Debug output in a clean format Ansible

I am trying to display the message output of a debug command in a nice format in Ansible. At the moment this is how the output looks:

TASK [stop : Report Status of Jenkins Process] *******************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "Service Jenkins is Running.\nReturn code from `grep`:\n0\n"
}

TASK [stop : debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": {
        "changed": false,
        "failed": false,
        "msg": "Service Jenkins is Running.\nReturn code from `grep`:\n0\n"
    }
}

How do I get rid of the '\n' character and replace with a new line? The code below using the split('\n') does not work.

- name: Checking Jenkins Process
  shell: "ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -v dhclient | grep jenkins"
  ignore_errors: yes
  register: jenkins_process

- debug:
    var: jenkins_process.rc

- name: Report Status of Jenkins Process
  fail:
    msg: |
      Service Jenkins is not found
      Return code from `grep`:
      {{ jenkins_process.rc }}
  when: jenkins_process.rc != 0
  register: report

- name: Report Status of Jenkins Process
  debug:
    msg: |
      Service Jenkins is Running.
      Return code from `grep`:
      {{ jenkins_process.rc }}
  when: jenkins_process.rc == 0
  register: report

- debug:
    msg: "{{ report.split('\n') }}"

- name: Stop Jenkins Service
  service:
    name: jenkins
    state: stopped

Is there a way to display this in a nice way?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8816

Answers (1)

sebthebert
sebthebert

Reputation: 12497

You can use the debug callback plugin.

You can specify it on command line:

ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=debug ansible-playbook ...

Or in your default section of your ansible.cfg configuration file:

stdout_callback = debug

Upvotes: 6

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