Can modules use Pipe ?

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Hi ,
I am developing a Ansible based product and so far so good.
One of the problems that ansible might not be solving(i might be wrong) is piping the output from 1 module to the other module

Example
I have several playbooks to take backup of mysql, files, vertica etc This works fine.
Now to add to the complexity i would like to encript it and chunk it to smaller flles and eventually send it to some storage protocol like SCP/SWIFT/NFS etc

the way i was thinking was individual playbook writers dont have to worry about the encription, storage etc they just develop their role to backup eg BackupMYSQLor BackupFiles
and then i develop modules called Store which would do the encription and send it to the desired protocol

This can still be done but it will involve storing the files on the system

The way did it earlier in python was to pipe the out from backup to tar to encription to storage

Question is , is there a way in ansible to make this pipe work ? It would be really cool and highly performant if this works

Ritesh

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the way we 'pipe' is using register: var and then using that var as
input to the 2nd module.

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Hi Brian,
That is good for variables. Can it be used for Streaming standardout ?

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there is no streaming, modules return full data at once