Hi,
Sorry to dig up this thread again but it's also an issue for me.
AIUI, Strahinja Kustudić needs (just as I do) a way to always gather facts
on all hosts, regardless of tags/limits. What your proposal does is (again,
AIUI) improve performance without the need of gather_facts: false in every
play. It's cool but different. We need different functionality, not better
performance.
Consider:
---
- hosts: vpn_clients
gather_facts: force
tasks:
- apt: pkg=openvpn-or-whatever
- hosts: vpn_hub
tasks:
- template: src=uses_facts_from_vpn_clients.j2
I'd love this playbook to do exactly the same thing on vpn_hub when ran
with -l vpn_hub and without. Otherwise whenever I want to simply regenerate
the vpn_hub's config, I'll either reconfigure all the clients again (time
consuming), generate a totally broken config (no clients' facts on hub), or
write a separate top-level playbook just for this one single task (not DRY
and/or ravioli code).
FWIW, I'm totally fine with calling setup manually on these hosts, so maybe
something like the following would be better? I'm willing to implement
anything that stands a chance of being accepted.
- hosts: vpn_clients
tasks:
- setup:
ignore_tags: true
ignore_limit: true
- apt: pkg=openvpn-or-whatever
- hosts: vpn_hub
tasks:
- template: src=uses_facts_from_vpn_clients.j2
Or make the ignore_* attributes of the play instead of a particular task if
that makes anything easier.
All comments appreciated.
Best regards,
Grzegorz Nosek
W dniu piątek, 14 marca 2014 17:42:26 UTC+1 użytkownik Michael DeHaan
napisał:
>
> We've discussed this and what we want to do with gather_facts is make a
> config setting
>
> gather_facts_tendancy: always or lazy, default always
>
> and then if you want to force when it's lazy, you could just call the '-
> setup' module in the tasks section.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Strahinja Kustudić
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> I know this is now and old topic, but it didn't make sense to open a new
>> one.
>>
>> Having offline cache would be nice, but wouldn't be easier to make
>> something like:
>>
>> *gather_facts: force* or *gather_facts_**force: True*
>>
>> or something similar, so that this overrides --limit / --tags and always
>> gathers facts.
>>
>>
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