Ansible write result command to local file with loop - ansible

Question

I've write ansible-playbook to collect the result from many network devices. Below playbook is working fine. But if I have to collect result with lot of commands. Let say 20 commands, I've to create the many task to write the results into file in my playbook.
For now, I manually create the tasks to write to logs into file. Below is example with 3 commands.
- name: run multiple commands and evaluate the output
hosts: <<network-host>>
gather_facts: no
connection: local
vars:
datetime: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'date +%Y%m%d%H') }}"
backup_dir: "/backup/"
cli:
host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
username: <<username>>
password: <<password>>
tasks:
- sros_command:
commands:
- show version
- show system information
- show port
provider: "{{ cli }}"
register: result
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show version\n{{ result.stdout[0] }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show system information\n{{ result.stdout[1] }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show port\n{{ cmd_result.stdout[2] }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
Is it possible to loop commands and result within one task?
Please kindly advice.
Thanks

Answer 1

try this one task alone in place above three tasks..
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show {{ item.command }}\n{{ cmd_result.stdout{{ item.outnum }} }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
with_items:
- { command: version, outnum: [0] }
- { command: system information, outnum: [1] }
- { command: port, outnum: [2] }

Answer 2

Below playbook is worked for me
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show {{ item.command }}\n{{ item.cmdoutput}}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
with_items:
- { command: "version", cmdoutput: "{{ cmd_result.stdout[0] }}" }
- { command: "system information", cmdoutput: "{{ cmd_result.stdout[1] }}" }
- { command: "port", cmdoutput: "{{ cmd_result.stdout[2] }}" }