Ansible: Store command's stdout in new variable?

Question

Inside my playbook I\'d like to create a variable holding the output of an external command. Afterwards I want to make use of that variable in a couple of templates.

Answer 1

I'm a newbie in Ansible, but I would suggest next solution:

playbook.yml

...
vars:
  command_output_full:
    stdout: will be overriden below
  command_output: {{ command_output_full.stdout }}
...
...
...
tasks:
  - name: Create variable from command
    command: "echo Hello"
    register: command_output_full
  - debug: msg="{{ command_output }}"

It should work (and works for me) because Ansible uses lazy evaluation. But it seems it checks validity before the launch, so I have to define command_output_full.stdout in vars.

And, of course, if it is too many such vars in vars section, it will look ugly.