Dump Variables - BROKEN

[Andy L]

Prior to 2.0, I used a task that dumped Ansible variables to an output file using a template.

This technique was super valuable for debugging.

The template looked like this:

HOST Variables ("hostvars"):
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{{ hostvars | to_nice_json }}

Module Variables ("vars"):
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{{ vars | to_nice_json }}

In 2.0 and 2.1, these no longer work.

Questions:
1) Can anyone post a workaround for these bugs?
2) By now Ansible should be mature.  How did this regressions not get caught?  Is Ansible tested?

[J Hawkesworth]

I usually just run something like this:

ansible -m debug -a "var=hostvars['interesting_host']" localhost -i test_inventory

Hope this helps,

Jon