Ansible Callback Plugin for Teamcity

Introduction

This Ansible callback plugin formats the output of an Ansible playbook, so that it can be better interpreted by TeamCity.

Because Ansible logs in Teamcity look like this:

With this plugin in place, they look like this:

All plays and tasks are nicely put into their own blocks allowing TeamCity to collapse them and calculate the different times.

You have different options of using this plugin:

In your playbook repository:
- Create a folder named callback_plugins directly where your playbook lives
- Download the file teamcity.py and place it in inside the callback_plugins directory
Somewhere else:
- Download or clone the plugin, unzip it and place the folder somewhere accessible (i.e. use the Teamcity tools feature to distribute the plugin to all agents)
- Use the following environment variable to tell Ansible where to find your plugin:
  export ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS=<path of your plugin>

Set the following environment variable to use the plugin:

export ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=teamcity

Then run your playbook.