Thanks Brian,

I wanted a confirmation for this because I feel like it makes the roles and 
handlers hardly unusable in a real cluster environment
and it shouldn't  be addressed with workarounds. I'll try to see if I can 
come up with a patch and submit it for review.



On Monday, November 3, 2014 2:23:38 PM UTC+2, Brian Coca wrote:
>
> No, handlers run with the play settings, so you can do serial: 30% but 
> that will affect both the install and the handler. The other way to do it 
> is to separate it into 2 plays with different serial, but then they are not 
> really handlers.
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Costi Ciudatu <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to run the handlers with a different `serial` value than 
>> the rest of the play ?
>>
>> What I want is to install my services in large batches (usually, on all 
>> the machines at once) and if  any of those services needs to be restarted, 
>> I want to perform that operation on X machines at a time.
>> Ideally, the X value should be decided for each particular service: e.g. 
>> I want to restart postgresql instances one at a time and I want to restart 
>> nginx on 30% of the hosts at a time.
>> However, the installation needs to be done on all the machines in 
>> parallel, as I usually have no reason to do this sequentially (restarts are 
>> rarely required).
>>
>> Is this possible with handlers ? Or can I trigger handlers from a 
>> different play ?
>> Or, at least, is there some best practice recommendation for how to 
>> achieve this ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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