debug - Print statements during execution

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status
  • Support
  • Author

Synopsis

• This module prints statements during execution and can be useful for debugging variables or expressions without necessarily halting the playbook. Useful for debugging together with the ‘when:’ directive.
• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Example that prints the loopback address and gateway for each host
- debug:
    msg: "System {{ inventory_hostname }} has uuid {{ ansible_product_uuid }}"

- debug:
    msg: "System {{ inventory_hostname }} has gateway {{ ansible_default_ipv4.gateway }}"
  when: ansible_default_ipv4.gateway is defined

- shell: /usr/bin/uptime
  register: result

- debug:
    var: result
    verbosity: 2

- name: Display all variables/facts known for a host
  debug:
    var: hostvars[inventory_hostname]
    verbosity: 4

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)
• Michael DeHaan