Ansible Stdout Compact Logger

Installation

• put somewhere on your disk
• add callback_plugins settings in your [defaults] settings in your ansible configuration
• change stdout_callback to anstomlog

cf ansible.cfg.

Features

• [x] one-line display
• [x] pylint compatible (almost...)
• [x] displays tasks content in a nice way
• [x] including UTF-8 strings
• [x] indents structs, displays empty arrays, strings
• [x] puts fields on top when available ['stdout', 'rc', 'stderr', 'start', 'end', 'msg']
• [x] removes some fields when present [, 'stdout_lines', '_ansible_verbose_always', '_ansible_verbose_override'] to avoid too much clutter
• [x] reverts to standard logger when more than vv verbosity
• [x] supports no_log attribute in Task
• [x] supports _ansible_verbose_always and _ansible_verbose_override
• [x] supports multiple items in task (#1)
• [x] multi host support
• [x] correct duration computation
• [x] Display duration in minutes when tasks last for more than 1 minute
• [x] diff display support
• [x] displays stdout and stderr nicely even when they contain \n
• [x] displays handlers calls
• [x] Python 2/3 compatible
• [ ] better line colouring
• [ ] more test around curious errors

Without anstomlog

With anstomlog

Test the logger

• clone this repository

ansible-playbook test-1.yml

• to run the tests, call python callbacks/anstomlog.py

License

MIT, see LICENSE file.

Tips and tricks

• Issue with non-ascii or utf-8 chars? Have a look at #4

Contributors

• Pierre BAILLET @octplane
• Frédéric COMBES @marthym
• @tterranigma
• @OurFriendIrony
• Farzad FARID @farzy
• Jérôme BAROTIN @jbarotin
• Dale Henries @dalehenries