Ansible roles don't have a way of defining pre and post tasks. They are usually defined as a way to do things before applying generic tasks/roles, like load balancing, and it would be a little confusing to have them in the list of roles when some steps would be executed out of order.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:42 AM, fokeyjo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hiya, > > Hopefully this is an easy quick question.. I'm using the layout described > in http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_best_practices.html. > > I want to define a pre-task to a role defined in meta/main.yml, but I > can't seem to do it. If my tasks/main.yml looks like this: > --- > pre_tasks: > - name: Install virtualenv > yum: name=python-virtualenv state=present > > I get: ERROR: expecting dict; got: pre_tasks, error in > <snip>/tasks/main.yml > > The page http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html#roles seems to > indicate that no other files or folders represent pre_tasks. > > So how do I define pre_tasks? > > Thanks, > > Fokeyjo > > -- > 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/90da8260-ebca-4749-b327-663bae0b7036%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/90da8260-ebca-4749-b327-663bae0b7036%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%2BnsWgzPrYJhohg4y6HJ69SREh0HBnmttL4Uv7DTxUni6SuOKQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
