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use stdout_callback to make ansible errors human readable #293

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Ansible's stdout defaults to a very dense, minimal format that is not particularly readoable. (e.g. giant blob of multiline json)

As of ansible 2.5, a human readable callback plugin (yaml) is built-in, and can be specified in ansible.cfg via stdout_callback = yaml.

Potential other options are unixy, dense, or debug. A full list can be found here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/callback_index_stdout.html

For more examples, see this blog post:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/use-ansibles-yaml-callback-plugin-better-cli-experience

Ansible's stdout defaults to a very dense, minimal format that is not particularly readoable.
(e.g. giant blob of multiline json)

As of ansible 2.5, a human readable callback plugin (`yaml`) is built-in, and can be specified in
ansible.cfg via `stdout_callback = yaml`.

Potential other options are `unixy`, `dense`, or `debug`.
A full list can be found here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/callback_index_stdout.html

For more examples, see this blog post:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/use-ansibles-yaml-callback-plugin-better-cli-experience
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Is ansible 2.5+ by default the version that is used in chi-in-a-box? when I tried this flag on dev-in-a-box, it did fix the weird yaml error output

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Is ansible 2.5+ by default the version that is used in chi-in-a-box? when I tried this flag on dev-in-a-box, it did fix the weird yaml error output

Yes

ansible>=2.10,<5

xena is using >= 2.10

@msherman64 msherman64 merged commit 50490c3 into stable/xena Jun 27, 2024
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