Interactive prompt for one or more commands in a playbook

[Josh Karki]

For example, 

show interface status

show version 

show ip route 

how can a module be written in Ansible to prompt user for the show command to type in when running a playbook. If entered one command (show interface status) and matched, print the output and ignore the rest other commands. If no match found, print default msg : "command not found" or  something like that. 

I am noob to Ansible. 

Thanks for your help!

[Brian Coca]

I would use vars_prompt and feed that data to the module or you can
use the pause action
(https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.11/collections/ansible/builtin/pause_module.html)

But a normal module cannot prompt the user, they are designed to be
executed on the remote.



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Brian Coca

[Roland Müller]

If you just want to execute task by task and press OK for continuing you could use the step mode by adding --step to the ansible-playbook command.

This way ansible-playbook will ask before every task to execute it (=y) skip it (=n) or continue without stepping (=c).

Perform task: configure ssh (y/n/c):

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/playbooks_startnstep.html#step 

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --step

However, - as Brian already pointed out - providing additional information during execution of the playbook is not supported.