Ansible : Trouble accessing Register VAlue - ansible

Question

I am writing an ansible playbook that will :
log into a windows box
check if the version of the application i am deploying exists already
downloads the application from git
extracts the app's zip file
moves it to the correct directory
I am having a bunch of trouble on a section of the code where i need to find the extracted directory. I am extracting a GIT zip, and of course, through Github the zip file contains the git hash directory. What I do is i look for this directory through a simple find-like command in windows. The problem is that during debug, i can see the results in stdout_lines ... but in practice, it doesn't seem to work.
Here is the code:
---
# Register our work path to do work in
- name: Registering {{apm_work_path}} as our working path
tags: install
win_stat: path={{apm_work_path}}
register: my_apmworkpath
# First check to see if an agent is already installed in our
# destination. We want to make sure we dont install multiple
# agents
- name: Checking if {{apm_root_path}} path exists on our remote server
tags: install
win_stat: path={{apm_root_path}}
register: my_apmrootpath
# Check if the apm agent is installed in the root path
- name: Checking if {{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}} path exists
tags: install
win_stat: path={{apm_root_path}}/{{apm_install_path}}
register: my_apminstallpath
# Check if the apm version is installed in the root path
- name: Checking if {{apm_version}} path exists
tags: install
win_stat: path={{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}}\\{{apm_version}}
register: my_apmversionpath
# We also want to make sure that we keep track of the path
# that we want our agent to be placed
- name: An agent already exists on server
tags: install
debug: msg="APM {{apm_version}} is already installed under {{apm_install_path}}"
when: my_apminstallpath.stat.exists == true
# Create our work directory
- name: Creating Work directory
tags: install
win_file: path={{apm_work_path}} state=directory mode=0755
when: my_apmworkpath.stat.exists == false
# Create our application directory
- name: Creating APM Agent directory
tags: install
win_file: path={{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}} state=directory mode=0755
when: my_apminstallpath.stat.exists == false
# Create our versioning directory
- name: Create APM version directory
tags: install
win_file: path={{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}}\\{{apm_version}} state=directory mode=0775
when: my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
# Export our agent from our version control repo (GIT)
- name: Exporting Agent from GIT
tags: install
win_get_url:
url: http://git.sys.a.com/APM/apm-agent-{{apm_version}}-base-win/repository/archive.zip?ref=master
dest: "{{apm_work_path}}\\agent.zip"
when: my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
# Make sure we succesfully got our agent downloaded
- name: Checking our agent download
tags: install
win_stat: path={{apm_work_path}}\\agent.zip
register: my_agentarchive
# Create the base-nix directory
- name: Creating base-nix directory
tags: install
win_file: path={{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}}\\{{apm_version}}\\base-win state=directory mode=0755
when:
- my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
- my_agentarchive.stat.exists == true
# Extract our GIT tarball to our new directory
- name: Extracting Agent
tags: install
win_unzip:
src: "{{apm_work_path}}\\agent.zip"
dest: "{{apm_work_path}}"
rm: True
when:
- my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
- my_agentarchive.stat.exists == true
###############################################################
##### THIS SECTION ############################################
# Get the extract directory
- name: Locate the Extracted Directory
tags: install
win_shell: for /d %d in (*apm-agent*) do echo %d
args:
executable: cmd
chdir: "{{apm_work_path}}"
register: extout
###### UNABLE TO SEE RESULTS HERE ############
- debug: msg={{ item }}
with_items: extout.stdout_lines
# Copy data from our work directory to the base-win directory
- name: Migrate Agent Files
tags: install
win_copy:
src: "{{apm_work_path}}\\{{ item }}\\"
dest: "{{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}}\\{{apm_version}}\\base-win"
with_items:
extout.stdout_lines
ignore_errors: no
when:
- my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
- my_agentarchive.stat.exists == true
# Now create a symbolic link for the agent path
- name: Creating Symlink
tags: install
win_file: src={{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}}\\{{apm_version}}\\base-win dest={{apm_root_path}}\\{{apm_install_path}}\\base-win state=link
when:
- my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
- my_agentarchive.stat.exists == true
# And cleanup after ourselves
#- name: Removing downloaded files
# tags: install
# win_file: path={{apm_work_path}} state=absent
# when:
# - my_apmversionpath.stat.exists == false
# - my_agentarchive.stat.exists == true
Relevant Section
###############################################################
##### THIS SECTION ############################################
# Get the extract directory
- name: Locate the Extracted Directory
tags: install
win_shell: for /d %d in (*apm-agent*) do echo %d
args:
executable: cmd
chdir: "{{apm_work_path}}"
register: extout
###### UNABLE TO SEE RESULTS HERE ############
- debug: msg={{ item }}
with_items: extout.stdout_lines
I can see the values of my register
changed: [ciwsdbxd8559.silver.com] => {
"changed": true,
"cmd": "for /d %d in (*apm-agent*) do echo %d",
"delta": "0:00:00.062173",
"end": "2016-11-06 07:56:51.816995",
"invocation": {
"module_name": "win_shell"
},
"rc": 0,
"start": "2016-11-06 07:56:51.754822",
"stderr": "",
"stdout": "\r\nE:\\SA\\tmp\\apm>echo apm-agent-10.3.0.15-base-win-master-541edbf478cc5e960c33e90b394a9b9cd822def3 \r\napm-agent-10.3.0.15-base-win-master-541edbf478cc5e960c33e90b394a9b9cd822def3\r\n",
"stdout_lines": [
"",
"E:\\SA\\tmp\\apm>echo apm-agent-10.3.0.15-base-win-master-541edbf478cc5e960c33e90b394a9b9cd822def3 ",
"apm-agent-10.3.0.15-base-win-master-541edbf478cc5e960c33e90b394a9b9cd822def3"
],
"warnings": []
}
However the following debug command gives me the following:
TASK [../roles/apm_windows : debug] ********************************************
task path: /home/SILVER/c53259/ansible/apm_deployment/roles/apm_windows/tasks/agent.yml:95
ok: [ciwsdbxd8559.silver.com] => (item=extout.stdout) => {
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"msg": "extout.stdout"
},
"module_name": "debug"
},
"item": "extout.stdout",
"msg": "extout.stdout"
}
Any thoughts on what is going on?
Using Ansible 2.2
Python 2.7

Answer 1

Are you sure this works without an error? Because mesg is not a valid option in debug. Did you mean msg?
- debug: mesg={{ item }}
Anyway, the problem is you are using a wrong parameter. Use var instead since you are printing the value of a variable.
- debug: var={{ item }}
with_items: extout.stdout_lines