Ansible: How to inform a python script about the outcome of a task?

Question

I have simple playbook to fetch and copy files from a share to remote windows clients:

- name: Test chocolatey module
  hosts: win_clones
  vars_files:
  - /         


        

Answer 1

You can run the playbook from the Python API (though it's more code and Ansible doesn't officially support it for external callers). Use the example from Python API 2.0 as a baseline, and instead of loading a play, load a playbook:

from ansible.playbook import Playbook

playbook = Playbook(loader).load('fetch.yml' loader=loader, variable_manager=variable_manager)

Then substitute

result = tqm.run(play)

for this

for play in playbook.get_plays():
    result = tqm.run(play)

You'll need some adaptation to get it to iterate multiple times per your for loop above, but this is the framework.

Answer 2

You can set stdout_callback = json via configuration file or env variable ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK.
ansible-playbook will print huge json file with execution result to stdout.