Rich Live Output

RLO, for short

An opinionated, information-dense stdout callback for Ansible. Designed for humans with modern terminals.

Main features

• Rich and dense: Terminal real estate comes at a premium; each line of log is meaningful.
• Live output: Know which tasks are currently running, and for how long.
• Safe: Sanitize the output before it arrives to your terminal.
• Custom transformers: Convert the output of your tasks before they're printed; ideal for censoring secrets, for example.

Dependencies

• rich: 14 or later.
• PyYAML: 5.1 or later.
  • implicitely available if ansible-core is installed.
• ansible-core: initially developed for 2.13, extensive testing has not been done.

Configuration

TODO: How to use
TODO: How to enable/disable running tasks' timer (and why you may want to disable it)
TODO: How to configure theme
TODO: Complete reference of variables

TODOs (in no particular order):

• Finish this README
• Document rlo_cb more extensively
• Custom number of Live tasks
• Better output sanitization
• Custom themes
• Custom icons
• Scope as much hardcoded theming under rlo's theme namespace
• Multiple transformers, with priority ordering
• Entire run timer
• Detach the "what and when to log" from the "how to log" logic for integration in other tools
• Fix tasks vars
• Aynsc tasks support?
• Jinja template for task names??

Authors

Rich Live Output was created by ShinySaana.
Some code snippets were sourced from community.general's yaml callback plugin.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

See COPYING to see the full text.