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Dag Wieers 03af450bdc Module to assist users in understanding Ansible

After helping someone on IRC he was interested to have this debug module in upstream. This module simply 'prints' a message, and can be ordered to fail if needed. It helps to troubleshoot or understand inventory/facts issues and/or experiment with statements and conditions using only_if.

Here is a small example playbook:

```yaml
- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - local_action: debug msg="System $inventory_hostname has uuid ${ansible_product_uuid}"
  - local_action: debug msg="System $inventory_hostname lacks a gateway" fail=yes
    only_if: "is_unset('$ansible_default_ipv4.gateway')"
  - local_action: debug msg="System $inventory_hostname has gateway ${ansible_default_ipv4.gateway}"
    only_if: "is_set('$ansible_default_ipv4.gateway')"
```

outputting:
```
[root@moria ansible]# ansible-playbook -v -l localhost:x220 test6.yml

PLAY [all] *********************

GATHERING FACTS *********************
ok: [localhost]
ok: [x220]

TASK: [debug msg="System $inventory_hostname has uuid $ansible_product_uuid"] *********************
ok: [localhost] => {"msg": "System localhost has uuid d125a48c-364f-4e65-b225-fed42ed61fac"}
ok: [x220] => {"msg": "System x220 has uuid d125a48c-364f-4e65-b225-fed42ed61fac"}

TASK: [debug msg="System $inventory_hostname lacks a gateway" fail=yes] *********************
failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true, "msg": "System localhost lacks a gateway", "rc": 1}
ok: [x220] => {"msg": "System x220 has gateway 192.168.1.1"}

PLAY RECAP *********************
localhost                      : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1
x220                           : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

```

I had some other plans for the module, like displaying host inventory and complete inventory to help understand inventory and facts modules, but that would require an action-plugin for transfering inventory information etc... And I am not sure this is wanted/best done in a module.

2012-10-04 09:50:18 +02:00