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If any Ansible task fails, there is error output, the playbook will display it newlines escaped '\n'. For tracebacks, spanning multiple lines, this make it very hard to read.
Is there a way to make ansible-playbook to display unescaped error output from shell, pip, gitand other similar tasks?
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Ignoring failed commands By default Ansible stops executing tasks on a host when a task fails on that host. You can use ignore_errors to continue on in spite of the failure. The ignore_errors directive only works when the task is able to run and returns a value of 'failed'.
Ansible normally has defaults that make sure to check the return codes of commands and modules and it fails fast – forcing an error to be dealt with unless you decide otherwise. Sometimes a command that returns different than 0 isn't an error.
To capture the output, you need to specify your own variable into which the output will be saved. To achieve this, we use the 'register' parameter to record the output to a variable. Then use the 'debug' module to display the variable's content to standard out.
Add stdout_callback=debug and stderr_callback=debug in the defaults section of your ansible.cfg file.
[defaults] (...) stdout_callback=debug stderr_callback=debug This is supported by ansible > 2.0
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