diff --git a/confluent_server/confluent/runansible.py b/confluent_server/confluent/runansible.py
index 444444c3..bd608c49 100644
--- a/confluent_server/confluent/runansible.py
+++ b/confluent_server/confluent/runansible.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 # vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
 
-# Copyright 2014 IBM Corporation
-# Copyright 2015-2018 Lenovo
+# Copyright 2021 Lenovo
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,6 +23,7 @@ import eventlet
 import eventlet.green.subprocess as subprocess
 import msgpack
 import os
+import struct
 import sys
 
 running_status = {}
@@ -32,23 +32,34 @@ class PlayRunner(object):
         self.playfiles = playfiles
         self.nodes = nodes
         self.worker = None
-        self.stdout = None
+        self.results = []
+        self.complete = False
 
     def _start_playbooks(self):
         self.worker = eventlet.spawn(self._really_run_playbooks)
 
+    def get_available_results(self):
+        avail = self.results
+        self.results = []
+        return avail
+
     def _really_run_playbooks(self):
-        with os.open(os.devnull, os.O_RDWR) as devnull:
+        with open(os.devnull, 'w+') as devnull:
             targnodes = ','.join(self.nodes)
             for playfilename in self.playfiles:
                 worker = subprocess.Popen(
                     [sys.executable, __file__, targnodes, playfilename],
                     stdin=devnull, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                     stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-                self.stdout, self.stderr = worker.communicate()
-                print(repr(self.stdout))
-                
-            
+                stdout, self.stderr = worker.communicate()
+                current = memoryview(stdout)
+                while len(current):
+                    sz = struct.unpack('=q', current[:8])[0]
+                    result = msgpack.unpackb(current[8:8+sz], raw=False)
+                    self.results.append(result)
+                    current = current[8+sz:]
+        self.complete = True
+
 
 def run_playbooks(playfiles, nodes):
     sshutil.prep_ssh_key('/etc/confluent/ssh/automation')
@@ -58,6 +69,24 @@ def run_playbooks(playfiles, nodes):
     runner._start_playbooks()
 
 
+def print_result(result, state, collector):
+    output = {
+        'task_name': result.task_name,
+        'changed': result._result['changed'],
+    }
+    output['state'] = state
+    output['warnings'] = result._result.get('warnings', [])
+    try:
+        del result._result['warnings']
+    except KeyError:
+        pass
+    if collector:
+        output['errorinfo'] = collector._dump_results(result._result)
+    msg = msgpack.packb(output, use_bin_type=True)
+    msglen = len(msg)
+    sys.stdout.buffer.write(struct.pack('=q', msglen))
+    sys.stdout.buffer.write(msg)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     from ansible.inventory.manager import InventoryManager
     from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
@@ -70,14 +99,15 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     import yaml
 
     class ResultsCollector(CallbackBase):
+
         def v2_runner_on_unreachable(self, result):
-            sys.stdout.write(msgpack.packb(result._result, use_bin_type=True))
+            print_result(result, 'UNREACHABLE', self)
 
         def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result, *args, **kwargs):
-            sys.stdout.write(msgpack.packb(result._result, use_bin_type=True))
+            print_result(result, 'ok', self)
 
         def v2_runner_on_failed(self, result, *args, **kwargs):
-            sys.stdout.write(msgpack.packb(result._result, use_bin_type=True))
+            print_result(result, 'FAILED', self)
 
     context.CLIARGS = ImmutableDict(
         connection='smart', module_path=['/usr/share/ansible'], forks=10,