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

In case than you want to store a complex command to compare text result, for example to compare the version of OS, maybe this can help you:

tasks:
       - shell: echo $(cat /etc/issue | awk {'print $7'})
         register: echo_content

       - shell: echo "It works"
         when: echo_content.stdout == "12"
         register: out
       - debug: var=out.stdout_lines