Nice reply on Reddit " Um, that's as hard as putting the "start app server" command after the "update schema" command. "
:) On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like that person didn't get into Ansible very far at all. > > - hosts: databases > tasks: > - # your update steps here > > - hosts: appservers > tasks: > - # all the steps here > > Ordering in Ansible is intrinsic to the system and there's nothing > complicated here to do at all. > > Playbooks contain an ordered list of plays, so you can just address > different groups in any order you like, including revisiting previous > groups. > > > > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:00 PM, nZac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was reading through this reddit thread: >> http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/24a4r0 and found this comment: >> 'I found Ansible to be fairly dreadful. It's difficult to do simple things >> like "don't start up the app server until the database schema on another >> machine has been updated".' >> >> How would this be done in Ansible? My understanding would be you could: >> >> . Take the application node offline >> . Update the database schema >> . Update the application server >> . Put the application node online >> >> Am I missing something? Is this situation more complex? >> >> Thanks for your thoughts. >> NZ >> >> -- >> 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/98c44a41-e462-4b0c-8336-4cf854a5d09f%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/98c44a41-e462-4b0c-8336-4cf854a5d09f%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/CA%2BnsWgxOLpGLQ-rbRmQ9Q_-SnZj349NeXmyABxgOp15TfYAhfQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
