This got me thinking that we kinda need an action to mimic any_errors_fatal
in a task, would be very helpful in cases like this.. where you need to
trigger a whole playbook failure conditionlly without affecting the default
failure behavior.. anything like that in the works?
On 1 Aug 2014 22:08, "Michael DeHaan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another nice shortcut that is a bit of syntactic sugar for "fail + when"
> is the assert module. It's a little weird because it has the "that" in
> there but we needed a key name for the argument.
>
> - assert:
> that:
> - "confirmation == 'YES'"
>
> OR:
>
> - assert: { that: "confirmation == 'YES' }
>
> etc
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Amr Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> First of all failed_when doesn't work for vars_prompt only for tasks..
>>
>> here is what you could do :
>>
>> - hosts: all
>> any_errors_fatal: yes
>> vars_prompt:
>>
>> name: "confirmation"
>> prompt: "Are you sure you want to run this playbook? Answer with
>> 'YES'"
>> default: "NO"
>> private: no
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: Check Confirmation
>> fail: msg="Playbook run confirmation failed"
>> when: confirmation != "YES"
>>
>>
>> note the use of any_errors_fatal, this is important because otherwise the
>> check task will only fail for the current host only, this makes the whole
>> playbook fails on any errors.
>>
>> problem with this is that it's not foolproof for instance if you did
>> confirm the run and any of your tasks failed, it'd fail the whole playbook
>> as opposed to the default behavior of taking out the just the host that
>> failed.
>>
>> the only way to counter this is to use when: confirmation == "YES" in
>> all your tasks, instead of using a primary "Fail Task", a bit ugly but a
>> safer route depending on your use case.
>>
>> also if you go the "Fail Task" route keep in mind that this won't work
>> if your playbook uses roles, in this case use a pre_tasks instead of a
>> normal tasks.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, August 1, 2014 7:13:11 PM UTC+2, maticm1 wrote:
>>>
>>> How do you set up a confirmation prompt before running a playbook?
>>>
>>> I'd like to have to enter "YES" before the playbook makes any changes to
>>> hosts. Right now I have the following code in site.yml, but it's not
>>> working.
>>>
>>> vars_prompt:
>>> - name: "confirmation"
>>> prompt: "Are you sure you want to run this playbook? Answer with
>>> 'YES'"
>>> default: "NO"
>>> private: no
>>> failed_when: "confirmation != YES"
>>>
>>>
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