
(A)I brought Ansible playbook output formatting to 2026
I felt like the ansible ouput is a bit less modern so I made this custom Ansible callback plugin that makes playbook output actually enjoyable to read and easier to understand.
No more walls of JSON. Just clean, color-coded, output with animated per-host spinners with real-time loop progress, one host one line, grouped loop items nested under each host, recap table and failure summary
Zero dependencies, just copy paste the file and replace the default stdout callback.
Here : https://github.com/w4hf/ansible-modern-output
AI has heavily used in this project. I hope someone find this useful.