community.general.unixy – condensed Ansible output

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.unixy.

Synopsis

  • Consolidated Ansible output in the style of LINUX/UNIX startup logs.

Requirements

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

  • set as stdout in configuration

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
check_mode_markers
boolean
added in 2.9 of ansible.builtin
    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 of ansible.builtin
    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 of ansible.builtin
    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
Removed in: version 2.12 of ansible.builtin
Why: environment variables without "ANSIBLE_" prefix are deprecated
Alternative: the "ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS" environment variable
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 of ansible.builtin
    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

Authors

  • Allyson Bowles (@akatch)