How to see stdout of ansible commands

ansibledebuggingstderrstdout

How do I see stdout for ansible-playbook commands? -v only shows ansible output, not the individual commands. It would be great if I could figure out how to do this immediately, so if something fails or hangs I can see why.

e.g.

- name: print to stdout
  action: command echo "hello"

would print

TASK: [print variable] ******************************************************** 

hello

Best Answer

I think you can register the result to a variable, then print with debug.

- name: print to stdout
  command: echo "hello"
  register: hello

- debug: msg="{{ hello.stdout }}"

- debug: msg="{{ hello.stderr }}"

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Running Ansible task as a specific user

You're misunderstanding both settings there:

remote_user is an Ansible setting that controls the SSH user Ansible is using to connect: ssh ${REMOTE_USER}@remotehost
someusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL is a sudo configuration that allows the user someusername to execute all commands in any host without a password. It does not allow anyone to issue commands as someusername though.

Ideally, you would login directly as the right user and that's what remote_user is all about. But usually you are only able to login as an administrative user (say, ubuntu) and have to sudo commands as another user (let's say scrapy). Then you should leave remote_user to the user that logs in and the add the following ansible properties to the job:

- name: log in as ubuntu and do something as scrapy
  remote_user: ubuntu
  sudo: true
  sudo_user: scrapy
  shell: do-something.sh

How to check the JSON response from a uri request with Ansible

You need to use a jinja2 filter (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_filters.html). In this case, the name of the filter is from_json. In the following example I'll take an action when the key is found and other action when the could not be found:

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 - hosts: somehost                                                                                               
   sudo: yes                                                                                                    

   tasks:                                                                                                       

   - name: Get JSON from the Interwebs                                                                          
     uri: url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ljharb/node-json-file/master/package.json" return_content=yes  
     register: json_response                                                                                    

   - debug: msg="Error - undefined tag"                                                                         
     when: json_response["non_existent_tag"] is not defined                                                     

   - debug: msg="Success - tag defined =>{{  (json_response.content|from_json)['scripts']['test'] }}<="  
     when:  (json_response.content|from_json)['scripts']['test']  is defined

Now replace the debug for the appropriate to take the desired action.

Hope it helps,

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