How can I configure Ansible to output errors without replaced newlines?

Question

It seems that ansible return results using JSON format, replacing the newlines with \n in the output.

This makes very hard to read the output on the screen / logs. How can I configure it to use real-newlines?

Answer 1

You need to use the callback plugins in your ansible.cfg file...

[defaults]
(...)
stdout_callback=debug
stderr_callback=debug

Will solve your issue... Don't ask why it's not the default, because I really can't say.

NOTE: This is only available in Ansible 2.0.0 and later.