keep_color doesn't work with ansible script on guest

[melck]

Hi, first sorry for my english !

I want to report a little issue, i'm on windows 7 and i launch ansible provisionning from shell script on guest. I want to keep color like ansible handle it but when i put keep_color, the colors are white and all red if script fails. Do you have a way to workaround this color issue without install plugin?

[mitchellh]

/cc @gildegoma

[gildegoma]

@melck I think that setting ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=true when running the ansible-playbook command should do the trick (which is actually what the Vagrant Ansible provisioner does):

  config.vm.define 'test' do |machine|

    machine.vm.provision :shell, keep_color: true, :inline => <<EOS
set -e
  cd /vagrant
  PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=true ansible-playbook -c local -i ... 
EOS

  end

Note that:

• I couldn't verify it on a Windows host, so you might encounter specific issues related to underlying OS or shell...
• If not already done, I also recommend you to set PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 to get fluent log output during the provision execution.
• I am interested in your experience on Windows host for my current work on Support Ansible “Local Playbooks” #2103 (in other words: I'll need some testers soon ;-)

[melck]

It's work very well. Thank you.

I will follow your work and i will be glad to test.

[gildegoma]

@melck cool, good to hear!

[gildegoma]

@melck in case you're still interested in this kind of things, please have a look at #5340.