Ansible Callback Plugin for Teamcity

Introduction

This Ansible [callback plugin]() formats the output of an Ansible playbook, so that it can be better interpreted by TeamCity.

Why?

Because Ansible logs in Teamcity look like this:

With this plugin in place, they look like this:

All plays and tasks are nicely put into their own blocks allowing TeamCity to collapse them and calculate the different times.

Usage

You have different options of using this plugin:

• In your playbook repository:
  • Create a folder named callback_plugins directly where your playbook lives
  • Download the file teamcity.py and place it in inside the callback_plugins directory
• Somewhere else:
  • Download or clone the plugin, unzip it and place the folder somewhere accessible (i.e. use the Teamcity tools feature to distribute the plugin to all agents)
  • Use the following environment variable to tell Ansible where to find your plugin:\ export ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS=<path of your plugin>

Set the following environment variable to use the plugin:

export ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=teamcity

Then run your playbook.