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

• one-line display
• pylint compatible (almost...)
• displays tasks content in a nice way
• including UTF-8 strings
• indents structs, displays empty arrays, strings
• puts fields on top when available ['stdout', 'rc', 'stderr', 'start', 'end', 'msg']
• removes some fields when present [, 'stdout_lines', '_ansible_verbose_always', '_ansible_verbose_override'] to avoid too much clutter
• reverts to standard logger when more than vv verbosity
• supports no_log attribute in Task
• supports _ansible_verbose_always and _ansible_verbose_override
• supports multiple items in task (#1)
• multi host support
• correct duration computation
• diff display support
• displays stdout and stderr nicely even when they contain \n
• displays handlers calls
• 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 python2.6 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