community.general.selective – only print certain tasks

community.general.selective – only print certain tasks

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

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

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

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples

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	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
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/selective_callback.html