Ansible Output Prettify

Transform your Ansible playbook output into beautiful console output

Features

• Beautiful colorized output
• Compact, readable format
• Role grouping to organize tasks by role

Before (Default Ansible)	After (Prettified)

Quick Start

# requirements.yml
- src: https://github.com/roots/ansible-output-prettify.git
  name: ansible-output-prettify

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

# your-playbook.yml
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - ansible-output-prettify

- hosts: your_servers
  roles:
    - your_other_roles

Configuration

Role variables

Set these in your playbook or inventory:

# Control automatic ansible.cfg configuration
prettify_auto_configure: true  # default: true

# Callback plugin settings (via environment variables)
ANSIBLE_PRETTIFY_SHOW_TIMING: true      # default: true
ANSIBLE_PRETTIFY_SHOW_TIMESTAMPS: false # default: false

Environment Variables

• ANSIBLE_PRETTIFY_SHOW_TIMING=true - Show task execution times
• ANSIBLE_PRETTIFY_SHOW_TIMESTAMPS=false - Show timestamps for each task

Ansible configuration options

Add to your ansible.cfg for the best experience:

[defaults]
stdout_callback = prettify
callback_plugins = ~/.ansible/plugins/callback