Debug Ansible variables

Generate a debugging file per host with as many Ansible variables as possible, this role will, by default, write variables to a /root/servername.example.org.yml file on the server.

Variable name	Default value	Comment
debug	true	Set debug to false to prevent any tasks in this role being run
debug_dir	/root	The directory to write the variable file into
debug_file	"{{ inventory_hostname }}.yml"	The file to write the variables into
debug_mode	0640	The mode of the variables file
debug_owner	root	The owner of the variables file
debug_group	root	The group of the variables file
debug_fetch	false	Set this variable to True to download the results to debug_local_dir
debug_email	false	Set this variable to True to email the results to debug_email_address
debug_email_address	root@localhost	Set this variable to the email address to send results to
debug_email_subject	"Ansible variables for {{ inventory_hostname }}"	Subject line for the email with the results
debug_local_dir	/tmp	Local directory to download the results to

This role requires a recent version of the ansible.mariadb collection, in order to generate MariaDB variables, this can be installed into ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections like this:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.mariadb

The primary URL of this repo is https://git.coop/webarch/debug and this is where the release notes are, it is also mirrored to GitHub and available via Ansible Galaxy.

The localhost repo can be used to run this role on the localhost.

This role was inspired by dumpall role.