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:...