Cant pass content of txt file to ansible shell command - ansible

Question

I'm trying to pass the content of a text file I have in the local folder to an Ansible shell command and for whatever reason, I can't and I'm sure its something silly that I'm missing.
Any help would be really appreciated
Here is the ansible line:
- name: Connect K8s cluster to Shipa
shell: shipa cluster-add {{ cluster_name }} --addr $(< {{ cluster_name }}.txt) --cacert {{ cluster_name }}.crt --pool {{ cluster_name }} --ingress-service-type=LoadBalancer
args:
executable: /bin/bash
no_log: False
Whenever I run this, this is what I get in the log:
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "shipa cluster-add scale2 --addr $(< scale2.txt) --cacert scale2.crt --pool scale2 --ingress-service-type=LoadBalancer", "delta": "0:00:00.096162", "end": "2020-04-30 21:32:54.245781", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2020-04-30 21:32:54.149619", "stderr": "Error: 500 Internal Server Error: parse \"https://\\x1b[0;33mhttps://192.196.192.156\\x1b[0m\": net/url: invalid control character in URL", "stderr_lines": ["Error: 500 Internal Server Error: parse \"https://\\x1b[0;33mhttps://192.196.192.156\\x1b[0m\": net/url: invalid control character in URL"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}
Here is the content of the file:
# cat scale2.txt
https://192.196.192.156
Here is what Im trying to pass in the command:
shipa cluster-add scale2 --addr https://192.196.192.156 --cacert scale2.crt --pool scale2 --ingress-service-type=LoadBalancer
EDIT:
I also tried the following:
- name: Get K8s cluster address
shell: kubectl cluster-info | grep 'Kubernetes master' | awk '/http/ {print $NF}'
args:
executable: /bin/bash
register: cluster_address
no_log: False
- debug: var=cluster_address
- name: Save to file
copy:
content: "{{ ''.join(cluster_address.stdout_lines) | replace('\\u001b[0;33m', '')| replace('\\u001b[0m', '') }}"
dest: "cluster_address.json"
- name: Connect K8s cluster to Shipa
shell: shipa cluster-add {{ cluster_name }} --addr {{ lookup('file', 'cluster_address.json') }} --cacert {{ cluster_name }}.crt --pool {{ cluster_name }} --ingress-service-type=LoadBalancer
args:
executable: /bin/bash
no_log: False
But it saves the following content to the file:
# vi cluster_address.json
^[[0;33mhttps://192.192.56.192^[[0m
Here is the output of the ansible execution:
TASK [debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"cluster_address": {
"changed": true,
"cmd": "kubectl cluster-info | grep 'Kubernetes master' | awk '/http/ {print $NF}'",
"delta": "0:00:00.144193",
"end": "2020-04-30 22:54:21.970460",
"failed": false,
"rc": 0,
"start": "2020-04-30 22:54:21.826267",
"stderr": "",
"stderr_lines": [],
"stdout": "\u001b[0;33mhttps://192.192.56.192\u001b[0m",
"stdout_lines": [
"\u001b[0;33mhttps://192.192.56.192\u001b[0m"
]
}
}
TASK [Save to file] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [localhost]
TASK [Connect K8s cluster to Shipa] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "shipa cluster-add scale1 --addr \u001b[0;33mhttps://192.192.56.192\u001b[0m --cacert scale1.crt --pool scale1 --ingress-service-type=LoadBalancer", "delta": "0:00:00.106936", "end": "2020-04-30 22:54:23.213485", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 127, "start": "2020-04-30 22:54:23.106549", "stderr": "Error: 400 Bad Request: either default or a list of pools must be set\n/bin/bash: 33mhttps://192.192.56.192\u001b[0m: No such file or directory", "stderr_lines": ["Error: 400 Bad Request: either default or a list of pools must be set", "/bin/bash: 33mhttps://192.192.56.192\u001b[0m: No such file or directory"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

Answer 1

You can disable the fancy terminal output by setting the TERM to dumb
- shell: kubectl cluster-info | awk '/Kubernetes master/ {print $NF}'
environment:
TERM: dumb
register: cluster_info
- set_fact:
cluster_addr: '{{ cluster_info.stdout | trim }}'
then, separately, you don't need to use the file lookup for a value that you have in a jinja2 variable already:
- name: Connect K8s cluster to Shipa
command: shipa cluster-add {{ cluster_name }} --addr {{ cluster_addr }} --cacert {{ cluster_name }}.crt --pool {{ cluster_name }} --ingress-service-type=LoadBalancer
args:
executable: /bin/bash