Write variable to a file in Ansible

Question

I am pulling JSON via the URI module and want to write the received content out to a file. I am able to get the content and output it to the debugger so I know the content

Answer 1

We can directly specify the destination file with the dest option now. In the below example, the output json is stored into the /tmp/repo_version_file

- name: Get repository file repo_version model to set ambari_managed_repositories=false
  uri:
    url: 'http://:8080/api/v1/stacks/HDP/versions/3.1/repository_versions/1?fields=operating_systems/*'
    method: GET
    force_basic_auth: yes
    user: xxxxx
    password: xxxxx
    headers:
      "X-Requested-By": "ambari"
      "Content-type": "Application/json"
    status_code: 200
    dest: /tmp/repo_version_file