Terraform: Terraform doesn't output colour with Ansible in local-exec

Created on 2 Jun 2019 · 4Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

Current Terraform Version

v0.11.13

Use-cases

Currently its very hard to read ansible output when provisioning within terraform because all the colours are removed. This also makes it difficult to detect warnings and errors at times.

Proposal

It would be great to enable ansible output colour in the shell by default when being used in a local or remote exec.

enhancement provisionelocal-exec

Source

queglay

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Most helpful comment

My workaround was to use ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1

provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1 ansible-playbook --ssh-extra-args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null' -u ${var.ssh_user} --private-key ${var.shared_key_path} -i ansible/inventory ansible/playbook.yml"
  }

nickkadams on 4 Dec 2019

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All 4 comments

Is it possible to achieve any workaround for this ability?

queglay on 6 Sep 2019

My workaround was to use ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1

provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1 ansible-playbook --ssh-extra-args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null' -u ${var.ssh_user} --private-key ${var.shared_key_path} -i ansible/inventory ansible/playbook.yml"
  }

nickkadams on 4 Dec 2019

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Fantastic! Thanks @nickkadams!

queglay on 16 Dec 2019

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