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Learning Ansible 2

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2 Learn everything you need to manage and handle your systems with ease with Ansible 2 using this comprehensive guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786464231
Length 266 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Simple Tasks 3. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 4. Handling Complex Deployment 5. Going Cloud 6. Getting Notifications from Ansible 7. Creating a Custom Module 8. Debugging and Error Handling 9. Complex Environments 10. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises

Ansible verbosity

One of the first options anyone picks up is the debug option. To understand what is happening when you run the playbook, you can run it with the verbose (-v) option. Every extra v will provide the end user with more debug output.

Let's see an example of using the playbook debug for a single task using the following debug options:

  • The -v option provides the default output, as shown in the preceding examples.
  • The -vv option adds a little more information, as shown in the following example:
    Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file 
 
    PLAYBOOK: setup_apache.yaml ******************************* 
    1 plays in setup_apache.yaml 
 
    PLAY [all] ************************************************ 
 
    TASK [setup] ********************************************** 
    ok: [test01.fale.io] 
 
    TASK [Ensure the HTTPd package is installed] ************** 
    task path: /home/fale/setup_apache.yaml:5 
    ok: [test01.fale.io] => {"changed": false, &quot...
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