How do I get logs/details of ansible-playbook module executions?

Question

Say I execute the following.

$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo Hello World
exit 0

$ cat Hello.yml
---

- hosts: MyTestHost
  tasks:
  - name: Hello yourself
           


        

Answer 1

If you pass the -v flag to ansible-playbook on the command line, you'll see the stdout and stderr for each task executed:

$ ansible-playbook -v playbook.yaml

Ansible also has built-in support for logging. Add the following lines to your ansible configuration file:

[defaults] 
log_path=/path/to/logfile

Ansible will look in several places for the config file:

• ansible.cfg in the current directory where you ran ansible-playbook
• ~/.ansible.cfg
• /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg