For simple strings, you can write them to disk by using the 'content' option of the copy module http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/copy_module.html (which you can delegate to localhost to copy to your ansible controller machine).
Hope this helps, Jon On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 2:23:38 PM UTC+1, David Rose wrote: > > Hello all! > I have a questions regarding capturing return values and writing them to a > file. Specifically, my use-case is in cloud provisioning ... I am standing > up any number of VMs. When the VM is created, and only when it is created, > a return value held by <hostname>.password is available. I can print the > instance variable in a debug message. But my question is, how can I > capture it automatically for future connections to this server without > writing to paper? How can I automate, if the variable .password exists, so > that it is written (maybe to vault?) and then used for subsequent plays for > use in, I believe, 'ansible_become_pass'? > > Thank you! > -dave > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/368dc7d3-344b-4c5b-88ef-e83696519c17%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
