Sounds like you should just configure that one server directly and missed
the part of Ansible that allows managing specific host groups.
- hosts: name_of_server
roles:
- ...
What you have above, say if you had 500 hosts, would run each step 500
times and likely overwhelm that server.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Dmitry Makovey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got a case where I'd like to delegate contents of entire role over to
> another box. Adding "delegate_to" to every task seems strenuous and not
> reusable since I may use this role without delegation.
>
> My attempt at simulating what is done with { role: X, tags: A } did not
> succeed:
>
> $ cat roles/delegated_role/tasks/main.yml
> ---
>
> - name: Simple echo
> shell: hostname
> # delegate_to: "{{ central_server }}"
>
> $ cat test_delegate.yml
> ---
>
> - hosts: all
> roles:
> - { role: delegated_role, delegate_to: "{{ central_server }}" }
>
> yet invocation with
>
> $ ansible-playbook -vvv -u root -e 'central_server=foo.bar' -i inventory
> test_delegate.yml
>
> yields results obtained from the server mentioned and not from
> 'delegated_to'. Obviously uncommenting "delegate_to" line within a role
> yields desired results but that means I can't reuse and it's a copy-paste
> exercise to transfer a role into a delegated role.
>
> Am I doing it the wrong way? Am I applying a wrong pattern here or is
> there a different way to blanket-apply things like that?
>
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