Try SpotterPrint statements during execution
| "added in version" 0.8 of ansible.builtin"
Authors: Dag Wieers (@dagwieers), Michael DeHaan
This plugin has a corresponding action plugin.
pipInstall with pip install ansible-core==2.16.5
This module prints statements during execution and can be useful for debugging variables or expressions without necessarily halting the playbook.
Useful for debugging together with the 'when:' directive.
This module is also supported for Windows targets.
- name: Print the gateway for each host when defined
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: System {{ inventory_hostname }} has gateway {{ ansible_default_ipv4.gateway }}
when: ansible_default_ipv4.gateway is defined
- name: Get uptime information ansible.builtin.shell: /usr/bin/uptime register: result
- name: Print return information from the previous task
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: result
verbosity: 2
- name: Display all variables/facts known for a host
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: hostvars[inventory_hostname]
verbosity: 4
- name: Prints two lines of messages, but only if there is an environment value set
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg:
- "Provisioning based on YOUR_KEY which is: {{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'YOUR_KEY') }}"
- "These servers were built using the password of '{{ password_used }}'. Please retain this for later use."
msg:
default: Hello world!
description:
- The customized message that is printed. If omitted, prints a generic message.
type: str
var:
description:
- A variable name to debug.
- Mutually exclusive with the O(msg) option.
- Be aware that this option already runs in Jinja2 context and has an implicit C({{
}}) wrapping, so you should not be using Jinja2 delimiters unless you are looking
for double interpolation.
type: str
verbosity:
default: 0
description:
- A number that controls when the debug is run, if you set to 3 it will only run debug
when -vvv or above.
type: int
version_added: '2.1'
version_added_collection: ansible.builtin