Define variable or fact when debug is set

[jdh239]

Proposal: Define variable or fact when debug is set

Author: jdh239

Date: 2018/04/18

• Status: New
• Proposal type: Feature Request

Motivation

I would like to be able to skip or execute certain tasks based on debug verbosity level.

Problems

What problems exist that this proposal will solve?

• Problem #1: meta: end_play when debug level is greater than <#>. This would allow easier debugging and prevent execution beyond the current point of debugging
• Problem #2: Allow me to skip/execute specific tasks when debugging.

Probably a lot of other scenarios to use this in, but that is all I have for right now.

Solution proposal

Set a variable or fact that can be used in conditionals based off of the verbosity level. (ie. ansible-playbook -vv myplay.yml)

meta: end_play when: verbosity >= 2

or

• name: Sample task shell: "Some stuff" register: myvar when: verbosity >= 3

It would allow more flexibility while debugging. I can execute my playbook without debugging and have it execute the whole thing, or terminate early with debugging without having to constantly edit my playbook to add meta: end_play statements, etc.

[sivel]

This has recently been implemented in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38231 and will appear in the 2.6 release.

The var will be ansible_verbosity

[jdh239]

Sweet! Thanks!