With a ansible.cfg containing: stdout_callback = community.general.yaml result_format = yaml YAML output is generated, for example: ansible-playbook update.yml -t update -l host.example.com -C --diff -v Using ansible.cfg as config file [DEPRECATION WARNING]: community.general.yaml has been deprec…

[defaults] result_format=yaml or in your shell export ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT=yaml See ansible-doc -t callback ansible.builtin.default for more, like pretty_results/ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_FORMAT_PRETTY.

[image] utoddl: [defaults] result_format=yaml I have that already, but I get JSON output.

Perhaps you have ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=yaml in your environment? That would override settings from and ansible.cfg.

That variable is not set: echo $ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK However this works: [image] utoddl: in your shell export ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT=yaml What I don’t get is why having this in ansible.cfg doesn’t work? I get JSON output with this: [defaults] # Use YAML rather than JSON for s…

What do you get from ansible-config dump --only-changed? I suspect your community.general.yaml knows it’s being deprecated, but your slightly older ansible install doesn’t know to use the newer settings? (Now I’m just guessing.)

Interesting. I would have thought that changing callback_result_format from yaml to json — which does cause the expected output changes — would also be reflected in the output from ansible-config dump --only-changed. But it isn’t. The config dumps are identical. $ ansible-config --version ansible-c…

Since it’s part of a plugin config you need -t all (this isn’t the default for backwards compatibility reasons) or -t callback: $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t callback ara_default: ___________ api_client(env: ARA_API_CLIENT) = http api_server(env: ARA_API_SERVER) = http://127.0.0.1:8082 l…

[image] flowerysong: The INI setting is named callback_result_format, not just result_format. Ah, thanks! Should this warning be updated to match to save people like me following it? The plugin has been superseded by the the option result_format=yaml in callback plugin ansible.builtin.defa…

Extending the deprecation message to include callback_result_format and ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT is definitely a good idea.

Ansible YAML output: community.general.yaml has been deprecated

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The INI setting is named callback_result_format, not just result_format. ansible.builtin.default callback – default Ansible screen output — Ansible Community Documentation

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