Extracting json from ansible playbook - ansible

Question

I am fairly new to Ansible, so apologies if this a naïve question.
When I execute Ansible Playbook using AnsibleRunner, I get output in the following format:
PLAY [MyPlay] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Get list of volumes] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"volumes": {
"Array_Software_Version": "2.0.0.0",
"Cluster": [
{
"id": "0",
"name": "111"
}
],
"Volumes": [
{
"id": "003ec9af-7a6d-473b-942f-3418da25d88c",
"name": "server1"
},
...
...
...
and my task
tasks:
- name: Get list of volumes
task: execute
register: volumes
- debug:
var: volumes
I'd like to extract just JSON payload, can I do this using Ansible?

Answer 1

Q: "Retrieve the actual JSON payload from ansible."
A: An option would be to use an intermediate file, for example
shell> cat test-280.yml
- hosts: localhost
become: true
vars:
volumes:
Array_Software_Version: "2.0.0.0"
Cluster:
- id: 0
name: 111
Volumes:
- id: 003ec9af-7a6d-473b-942f-3418da25d88c
name: server1
tasks:
- copy:
dest: /tmp/my_volumes.json
content: |
{{ {'volumes': volumes}|to_nice_json }}
shell> cat test-280.sh
#!/bin/bash
ansible-playbook test-280.yml > /dev/null
my_volumes=`cat /tmp/my_volumes.json`
echo $my_volumes
shell> ./test-280.sh
{ "volumes": { "Array_Software_Version": "2.0.0.0", "Cluster": [ { "id": 0, "name": 111 } ], "Volumes": [ { "id": "003ec9af-7a6d-473b-942f-3418da25d88c", "name": "server1" } ] } }