Printing task names when running ansible adhoc commands

Question

I need to run some roles from command line for testing and sometimes I have some adhoc tasks to apply. So I use ansible to run the role. For example:

$ ansible all -i 192.168.1.123,  -m include_role -a"name=myrole" -e '@role.json'

This works fine and prints out a lot of information but it does not print task -name: text. What I mean is the text which is normally printed by ansible-playbook like this:

TASK [Do this and that...]

But ansible does not print this. Without this information, sometimes it is difficult to tell where ansible is exactly. If a task fails, it is difficult to figure out which task failed...

Is there a way to run roles in adhoc fashion and also have more information about exactly which task is running?

Answer 1

No, the adhoc ansible script can't print that. Workaround is creating a simple playbook:

---

- hosts: "{{ myhost }}"
  tasks:

  - import_role:
      name: "{{ myrole }}"

Run with:

ansible-playbook /path/roletest.yml -e 'myrole=coolrole myhost=awesomehost' -e '@role.json'