On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:17:29 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> Ansible plays are hashes, they are a collection of attributes.
>
> Tasks are an ordered list.
>
> Thus including "vars_prompt" ahead or behind "tasks" makes no difference.
>
> vars_prompt happens before the current play runs, every time.
>
> You can solve this problem by stopping the current play, starting a new
> one with a vars_prompt in it, and then continuing, since a playbook can
> contain multiple plays in a single file.
>
>
Many thanks. I apologize but I am not proficient enough to know what you
mean exactly.
Something like this?
---
- name: play 1
hosts: myhost
task:
-name task1
debug: msg='111111'
- name: play 2
hosts: myhost
vars_prompt:
yesno: 'Yes or No (y/n): '
- name: play 3
hosts: myhost
task:
-name task2
debug: msg='YesNo = {{ yesno }}'
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Tiglath <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> My test playbook for the flow I want is shown below:
>>
>> I want some work done, then prompt the user, then more work, a pause, and
>> the end.
>>
>> The thing is that the prompt comes up even before gathering facts, not as
>> suggested by its placement in the playbook.
>>
>> Can the prompting be done between tasks?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> hosts: "{{ target }}"
>>
>> tasks:
>>
>> - name: boo
>>
>> debug: msg="vars {{ inventory_hostname }} , env {{ env }} op {{
>> op }} rel {{ rel }}"
>>
>> - name: build the release
>>
>> debug: msg="building"
>>
>> - name: installing/updating
>>
>> debug: msg="installing"
>>
>>
>>
>> hosts: "{{ target }}"
>>
>> vars_prompt:
>>
>> ltvup: "Is the app up on {{ target }} ? (y/n): "
>>
>> tasks:
>>
>> - name: Stop app
>>
>> debug: msg="the server is {{ ltvup }}"
>>
>> - name: postinstall
>>
>> debug: msg="post"
>>
>> - name: wait
>>
>> pause: prompt="Have admins do sudo blah blah blah"
>>
>> cleanup tasks here.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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