I'm also running into this. Would be great if there was a way to enable fact gathering for all (or possibly a subset of) hosts when scoping on tags or hosts. Without something like that you always have to run on all machines to be able to get a list of ip addresses of machines for a firewall config, for example.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:22:34 PM UTC+2, Nick Groenen wrote: > > I have a very large playbook which configures our entire > infrastructure. Because of this, various steps are tagged so that only > specific parts of the playbook can be run, cutting down on runtime > when required. > > Parts of this setup use facts/hostvars to automatically create correct > configuration files. For example, nginx config adding all the > application servers that are defined in the inventory to the correct > upstream definitions, and iptables on the appservers automatically > opening up the correct ports to the loadbalancers. > > However, when running the playbook with --limit, or --tags, not all > hosts are contacted, and as a result, facts aren't available on every > system in the infrastructure. This causes all kinds of problems for my > setup, obviously. > > Is there any way to force gathering of facts on all hosts, even when > specifying one of these options? Or another way to deal with this > situation that I haven't thought of? > > Right now, I'm solving it for the --tags case by having one task at > the start of the playbook, which simply calls the ping module and has > every tag that's used listed. This way, this task is kicked off no > matter which tag is specified, causing facts to be gathered on every > system in our inventory. > > Obviously, this isn't a practical solution however, nor does it solve > the case where limit it used. > -- 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/2c0c5d72-132b-4fd4-adfe-448284d02ad5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
