Anyone ... anyone ... Bueller?

On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 10:46:04 AM UTC-7, johhue wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am getting ready to have our general populace execute patches using 
> Ansible. We are running playbooks with wrapper shell scripts at the moment 
> and do not have Tower evaluated yet.
>
> I would like to control what messages appears to them in the output of 
> plays. Ansible is extremely verbose.
>
> Not everyone understands the JSON formatting and anything "red" or with 
> the "ERROR" string usually we get the hands thrown up and people question. 
> We may have errors like if a directory does not exist, we create it, etc ...
>
> Anyway, I would like to hide the task output of plays which I choose 
> because they do not match the when condition, or are skipped, or are 
> superfluous.
>
> I don't want to send the whole of ansible-playbook to /dev/null and just 
> have a return code. There are messages that are useful to them.
>
> I also don't want to go under the hood and hack with a callback_plugin ... 
> I was hoping there was something out there already.
>
> I am trying no_log which prints this sarcastic message:
>
> TASK [common : Initial check in] ***************************************
> ok: [hostA] => {"censored": "the output has been hidden due to the fact 
> that 'no_log: true' was specified for this result"}
> ok: [hostB] => {"censored": "the output has been hidden due to the fact 
> that 'no_log: true' was specified for this result"}
> ok: [hostC] => {"censored": "the output has been hidden due to the fact 
> that 'no_log: true' was specified for this result"}
> ok: [hostD] => {"censored": "the output has been hidden due to the fact 
> that 'no_log: true' was specified for this result"}
>
> Hilarious ... Why print a message saying the output has been hidden?
>
> Ok seriously how can you just not print this play to the screen AT ALL?
>
> central:/app/sysint/bin> ansible --version
> ansible 2.1.1.0
>   config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
>   configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
>
>
> John
>
>

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