Re: [ansible-project] Inventory scripts: How to add debug info when run via Ansible?

[Hugo Gonzalez]

Hi Jimmy,

On 12/27/18 5:57 AM, Jimmy Htor wrote:

Hey,

The way I see it you either output to STDOUT, which would make debug 
output part of the inventory data, thus corrupt it. Or you output to 
STDERR and Ansible will treat is as actual errors (and show it using 
red color).


Is there another way to cleanly provide debug info during an Ansible 
run besides writing to a file?



JSON doesn't support comments, but you can create a dummy variable 
called _comment and put your debugging messages there, right in the 
JSON. An unused variable won't mess up your inventory data.



Another option is to use the  syslog facility for whatever language 
you're writing the inventory script in.


In bash, it would be :

$ logger "spam and eggs happened"


Cheers,


Hugo



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Hugo F. gonzalez

Senior Consultant

Red Hat LATAM 





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[ansible-project] Inventory scripts: How to add debug info when run via Ansible?

[Jimmy Htor]

Hey,

The way I see it you either output to STDOUT, which would make debug output 
part of the inventory data, thus corrupt it. Or you output to STDERR and 
Ansible will treat is as actual errors (and show it using red color).

Is there another way to cleanly provide debug info during an Ansible run 
besides writing to a file?

Thx

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