For example,
show interface status
show version
show ip route
how can a module be written in Ansible to prompt user for the show command to type in when running a playbook. If entered one command (show interface status) and matched, print the output and ignore the rest other commands. If no match found, print default msg : “command not found” or something like that.
I am noob to Ansible.
Thanks for your help!
I would use vars_prompt and feed that data to the module or you can
use the pause action
(https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.11/collections/ansible/builtin/pause_module.html)
But a normal module cannot prompt the user, they are designed to be
executed on the remote.
If you just want to execute task by task and press OK for continuing you could use the step mode by adding --step to the ansible-playbook command.
This way ansible-playbook will ask before every task to execute it (=y) skip it (=n) or continue without stepping (=c).
Perform task: configure ssh (y/n/c):
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/playbooks_startnstep.html#step
$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --step
However, - as Brian already pointed out - providing additional information during execution of the playbook is not supported.