[SOLVED] How to display output of tasks of an Ansible playbook without using the '-v' option

Issue

I have the following task to print out the current version of jenkins that is installed on some servers:

---
- hosts: all                                   
  remote_user: user                         
  tasks:
      - name: Printing the Jenkins version running on the masters
        yum:
          name: jenkins
        register: version

      - debug: var=version

I am trying to avoid using the -v option when running the playbook with hopes to keep the output as clean as possible.

If the playbook is run without the -v option the output looks like this:

TASK [Printing the jenkins version that is installed on each of the servers]***************
ok: [Server1]
ok: [Server2]
ok: [Server3]

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************    ok: [Server1] => {
"changed": false, 
"version": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}

ok: [Server1] => {
"changed": false, 
"version": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}

ok: [Server1] => {
"changed": false, 
"version": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}

However it returns that version is not defined. I am confused as to why this is happening because I have done the printing the same way for a bunch of other tasks without any problems. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Solution

You can acheive this using the shell and debug

---
- hosts: all                                   
  remote_user: user
  become: True
  become_method: sudo      
  tasks:
      - name: Printing the Jenkins version running on the masters
        shell: cat /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml | grep '<version>'
        register: version

      - debug: var={{ version['stdout'] }}

Answered By - Apurv Paul