Correct, a task does not allow the keyword serial to be defined on it. There's no need to define an entirely new playbook, but you will have to declare a new play.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Khaled Janania <[email protected]>wrote: > The documentation doesn't really answer the question though. Does that > mean there's no way to define one task as serial? In other words, serial > only applies for all tasks? > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 8:06:38 PM UTC-5, Michael DeHaan wrote: >> >> That's a pretty old post. >> >> You should read up on the "serial:" keyword in Ansible. >> >> http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_delegation.html#id6 >> >> serial: 1 >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Mike Sop <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Came across another ticket describing a change to make a "playbook" >>> serial (I'm guessing that means all tasks in the playbook): >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ >>> ansible-project/task$20serial/ansible-project/ZrSuwsqv1m8/-o-bJTQuJnUJ >>> >>> would like to have more granular control and just specify particular >>> task(s) as serial, is that possible? Perhaps the intended way of doing >>> this is to create a new playbook for those particular tasks? Seems like >>> overkill but am willing to give it a shot (beats having to run ALL my tasks >>> with forks 1 or serial 1) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> >> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. >> http://www.ansibleworks.com/ >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9cb5a77d-5d06-4b90-bb4a-94f480cac288%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9cb5a77d-5d06-4b90-bb4a-94f480cac288%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAK6JQEFjMyytfHWENpESJFh30eO9zJzKw0R9SxeoeYeBMWhsVQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
