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default – default Ansible screen output¶

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Synopsis ¶

This is the default output callback for ansible-playbook.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this callback.

set as stdout in configuration

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
check_mode_markers boolean added in 2.9	Choices: no ← yes	ini entries: [defaults] check_mode_markers = no env:ANSIBLE_CHECK_MODE_MARKERS	Toggle to control displaying markers when running in check mode. The markers are `DRY RUN` at the beggining and ending of playbook execution (when calling `ansible-playbook --check`) and `CHECK MODE` as a suffix at every play and task that is run in check mode.
display_failed_stderr boolean added in 2.7	Choices: no ← yes	ini entries: [defaults] display_failed_stderr = no env:ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_FAILED_STDERR	Toggle to control whether failed and unreachable tasks are displayed to STDERR (vs. STDOUT)
display_ok_hosts boolean added in 2.7	Choices: no yes ←	ini entries: [defaults] display_ok_hosts = yes env:ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_OK_HOSTS	Toggle to control displaying 'ok' task/host results in a task
display_skipped_hosts boolean	Choices: no yes ←	ini entries: [defaults] display_skipped_hosts = yes env:DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS env:ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS	Toggle to control displaying skipped task/host results in a task
show_custom_stats boolean	Choices: no ← yes	ini entries: [defaults] show_custom_stats = no env:ANSIBLE_SHOW_CUSTOM_STATS	This adds the custom stats set via the set_stats plugin to the play recap
show_per_host_start boolean added in 2.9	Choices: no ← yes	ini entries: [defaults] show_per_host_start = no env:ANSIBLE_SHOW_PER_HOST_START	This adds output that shows when a task is started to execute for each host

Status ¶

This callback is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This callback is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors¶

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