Yes, the play could just have one task in it.
A serial task in the middle of several non-serial ones would look like this
in a single playbook file.
- hosts: webservers
tasks:
-
-
-
- hosts: webservers
serial: 1
tasks:
-
- hosts: webservers
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Paul Durivage <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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)
>>>>
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