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community.general.selective – only print certain tasks

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

Synopsis

  • This callback only prints tasks that have been tagged with print_action or that have failed. This allows operators to focus on the tasks that provide value only.
  • Tasks that are not printed are placed with a ‘.’.
  • If you increase verbosity all tasks are printed.

Requirements

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

  • set as main display callback

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
nocolor
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
ini entries:

[defaults]
nocolor = no

env:ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR
env:ANSIBLE_SELECTIVE_DONT_COLORIZE
This setting allows suppressing colorizing output

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="This will not be printed"
- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="But this will"
  tags: [print_action]

Authors

  • Unknown (!UNKNOWN)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/selective_callback.html