Add a configuration parameter to keep coloration escape sequences in the logfile

[NoSuchCommand]

Proposal: Add a configuration parameter to keep coloration escape sequences in the logfile

Author: Fabien Malfoy <@NoSuchCommand>

Date: 2019-01-25

• Status: New
• Proposal type: feature
• Targeted release: future release

Motivation

Currently, there is no built-in option to have Ansible commands write logfiles including the coloration, in the same way it writes it to the standard output.

Problems

Ansible writes uncolored log messages in its logfile, although it writes colored ones on the screen.

Solution proposal

One way to fix this could be to let the user choose via a configuration parameter inside ansible.cfg.