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stderr – Splits output, sending failed tasks to stderr

New in version 2.4.

DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible:
version: 2.11
Why: The ‘default’ callback plugin now supports this functionality
Alternative: ‘default’ callback plugin with ‘display_failed_stderr = yes’ option

Synopsis

  • This is the stderr callback plugin, it behaves like the default callback plugin but sends error output to stderr.
  • Also it does not output skipped host/task/item status

Requirements

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

  • set as main display callback

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
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 will be removed in version 2.11. [deprecated]
  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • UNKNOWN

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/plugins/callback/stderr.html