Ansible remove \ and brackets from output - debugging

Question

I am trying to print out the kubernetes version and client version with Ansible however the output comes with slashes and how can I remove the brackets for a more cleaner output?
- name: Kubernetes version
run_once: true
changed_when: False
shell: |
kubectl version
delegate_to: localhost
register: kubernetes_version
Output:
name: Output
run_once: true
delegate_to: localhost
debug:
msg: "{{ kubernetes_version.stdout_lines }}"
output:
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
"Client Version: version.Info{Major:\"1\", Minor:\"18\", GitVersion:\"v1.18.4\", GitCommit:\"e0fccafd69541e3750d460ba0f9743\", GitTreeState:\"clean\", BuildDate:\"2020-04-16T11:44:03Z\", GoVersion:\"
go1.13.9\", Compiler:\"gc\", Platform:\"linux/amd64\"}",
"Server Version: version.Info{Major:\"1\", Minor:\"18\", GitVersion:\"v1.18.4\", GitCommit:\"e0fccafd69541e3750d460ba0f9743\", GitTreeState:\"clean\", BuildDate:\"2020-04-16T11:35:47Z\", GoVersion:\"
go1.13.9\", Compiler:\"gc\", Platform:\"linux/amd64\"}"
]
}

Answer 1

I'm replacing my original answer, because I was forgetting that
kubectl version can produce JSON output for us, which makes this
much easier.
By taking the output of kubectl version -o json and passing it
through the from_json filter, we can create an Ansible dictionary
variable from the result.
Then we can use a debug task to print out keys from this variable,
and I think you'll get something closer to what you want.
This playbook:
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: run kubectl version
command: kubectl version -o json
register: kv_raw
- set_fact:
kv: "{{ kv_raw.stdout | from_json }}"
- debug:
msg:
- "{{ kv.clientVersion }}"
- "{{ kv.serverVersion }}"
Will produce output like this:
PLAY [localhost] ********************************************************************************************
TASK [run kubectl version] **********************************************************************************
changed: [localhost]
TASK [set_fact] *********************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
{
"buildDate": "2020-11-14T01:08:04Z",
"compiler": "gc",
"gitCommit": "6082e941e6d62f3a0c6ca8ba52927100948b1d0d",
"gitTreeState": "clean",
"gitVersion": "v1.18.2-0-g52c56ce",
"goVersion": "go1.13.15",
"major": "1",
"minor": "18",
"platform": "linux/amd64"
},
{
"buildDate": "2020-10-25T05:12:54Z",
"compiler": "gc",
"gitCommit": "45b9524",
"gitTreeState": "clean",
"gitVersion": "v1.18.3+45b9524",
"goVersion": "go1.13.4",
"major": "1",
"minor": "18+",
"platform": "linux/amd64"
}
]
}
PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0