Ansible Cowsay¶
This page covers the cowsay command and all the cows
that show up when you run ansible.
Table of Contents¶
Wat¶
One of the first things you notice about ansible is that it tells you what's going on via a series of cows:
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< PLAY [all] >
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
That's because Ansible is wrapping log messages with the program cowsay, which prints out text in a text bubble accompanied by a cow.
Turn off cows¶
To turn off the cows, set ANSIBLE_NOCOWS=1:
ANSIBLE_NOCOWS=1 \
ANSIBLE_CONFIG="vagrant.cfg" \
ansible-playbook \
base.yml
which is boring:
GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** ok: [127.0.0.1]
Weird cows¶
Fortunately, cowsay comes with many kinds of cows:
$ cowsay -l Cow files in /usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.04/share/cows: beavis.zen blowfish bong bud-frogs bunny cheese cower daemon default dragon dragon-and-cow elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep ghostbusters head-in hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala meow milk moofasa moose mutilated ren satanic sheep skeleton small sodomized stegosaurus stimpy supermilker surgery telebears three-eyes turkey turtle tux udder vader vader-koala www
...so many questions.
To specify a particular cow, set the ANSIBLE_COW_SELECTION variable:
ANSIBLE_COW_SELECTION=vader
gives you
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< PLAY [Initial setup root] >
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\ ,-^-.
\ !oYo!
\ /./=\.\______
## )\/\
||-----w||
|| ||
Cowth Vader
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< TASK [Gathering Facts] >
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\ ,-^-.
\ !oYo!
\ /./=\.\______
## )\/\
||-----w||
|| ||
Cowth Vader
Here is ANSIBLE_COW_SELECTION=tux:
< GATHERING FACTS >
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\
\
.--.
|o_o |
|:_/ |
// \ \
(| | )
/'\_ _/`\
\___)=(___/