Beautiful Output

This tool includes a plugin that helps you show your playbook's execution in a nice way (at least, that’s what I think).

I have always cared about how my terminal looks. When I started using Ansible, I couldn’t find a nice-looking Callback plugin. So, I decided to create this plugin to achieve my goal of a "beautiful terminal" experience with Ansible.

Remember, everyone has different tastes. What looks good to me might not look good to you.

Requirements

Before you can run your playbook with this plugin, you need to have the watchdog Python library installed on your control machine.

You can install it using pip:

$ pip install watchdog

Or you can add it to your requirements.txt file.

If you are using macOS, you also need AppKit. However, don't install it directly; instead, install these two packages: PyObjC and PyObjC-core:

$ pip install PyObjC PyObjC-core

Dependencies

This plugin doesn’t depend on any other Role.

How to use it

First, tell Ansible to use this plugin by adding it as an stdout_callback in your ansible.cfg file:

[defaults]
# Use the Beautiful Output callback plugin.
stdout_callback = beautiful_output
# Use the stdout_callback for running ad-hoc commands.
bin_ansible_callbacks = True

Next, for each playbook you want to run with this plugin, include the role in the playbook file:

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - role: townk.beautiful_output

Screenshots

Failure

Detailed verbose failure

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Thiago Alves

You can use this software for free and modify it however you want, as long as you include this permission notice in any copies or significant parts of the software.

The software is provided "as is," without any guarantees. The authors are not responsible for any claims, damages, or other issues that may arise from using the software.