There are some tasks I run to collect info, and if they fail, oh well… I have ignore_errors: true in there. But sometimes there could be a lot of output from a “failed” task that I just don’t want to see. How can I tell my task to not echo back any output to stdout?
Could this example [1] work?
- name: secret task
shell: /usr/bin/do_something --value={{ secret_value }}
no_log: True
# Maybe conditional, when an error arises?
register: result
no_log: True
when: result|failed
[1] http://docs.ansible.com/faq.html#how-do-i-keep-secret-data-in-my-playbook
No, no_log just suppresses logging. Already found and tried it 
Anyone?
no_log in 1.8 does in fact block output to the callbacks in general.
Have you tried on 1.8 (devel – releasing VERY soon now), and if so, can you clarify more about what you are looking for?
Awesome! No, I have not tried it, as I get my ansible from MacPorts. Hopefully as soon as 1.8 is out the port maintainer will release there.
Basically, when I’m executing a task simply to get some output, I don’t want to see:
TASK: [postfix | Check if SMTP submission is already allowed via IPv6] ********
failed: [jedis-test] => {“changed”: true, “cmd”: “grep ‘^-A\ INPUT\ -p\ tcp\ -m\ state\ --state\ NEW\ -m\ tcp\ --dport\ 587\ -j\ ACCEPT’ /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables >/dev/null 2>&1”, “delta”: “0:00:00.002819”, “end”: “2014-11-24 16:35:55.098774”, “rc”: 1, “start”: “2014-11-24 16:35:55.095955”}
…ignoring
And some tasks, like checking to see if our McAfee is there, can generate a page of angry red text. Since I really don’t care what stdout is, I’d rather just see:
TASK: [postfix | Check if SMTP submission is already allowed via IPv6] ********
and then move on to the next task
Thanks yet again, and thanks for such an awesome piece of software! I’m using ansible for more and more tasks, and loving it!