Better output for ad-hoc commands?

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Is there any way to get Ansible to provide cleaner/human readable output when running ad-hoc commands? Sometimes, particularly when output of a process is voluminous, it drops newlines and munges everything together. Using -v doesn’t help.

Thanks,

Alex

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There is not currently.

The output is basically JSON though for command/shell modules it presents things a bit more organized.

Open to thoughts though!

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Not core Ansible, but you can take a look at https://github.com/dominis/ansible-shell - it looks a bit better, but still won’t help you with big amount of hosts.

Alex Scoble bloggingitguy@gmail.com napisał:

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Yeah there are some comments on the PR about ansible-shell about what it takes to get this into core.

All being said, it’s a different way of operations.

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Thanks Tomasz,

I’ll try it and let you all know if it solves my problem, but just playing with it for a few moments it does look pretty cool.

Thanks,

Alex

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Tomasz,

Is there any better documentation for ansible-shell available anywhere? They don’t explain at all what the serial setting is for or how to pass commands to the current group.

Thanks,

Alex

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Figured out that “serial” is number of forks. I kind of guessed, but didn’t want to assume anything.

Thanks,

Alex

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Tomasz,

Unfortunately, it looks like currently there’s no way to set ansible-shell to do --sudo-ask-pass or --ask-pass which makes it a non-starter for our network.

Thanks,

Alex

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Hi, ansible-shell is not part of ansible (yet anyway), so the best place to ask questions about it would be it’s github tracker.