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

If you want to go further and extract the exact information you want from the Playbook results, use JSON query language like jmespath, an example:

  - name: Sample Playbook
    // Fill up your task
    no_log: True
    register: example_output

  - name: Json Query
    set_fact:
      query_result:
        example_output:"{{ example_output | json_query('results[*].name') }}"