Thanks James. It does help. I think your second solution is the most appropriate for this case.
--Pedro. On Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:11:11 UTC, James Cammarata wrote: > > Hi Pedro, > > You can use the retry/until mechanism to re-execute a task a set number of > times, however you cannot change the underlying variables you send to the > task during each retry: > > http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html#do-until-loops > > Alternatively, you could use a delegate_to and a when statement to have > several tasks that are only run if the previous one failed, so that the > second tasks would be delegated to the secondary/tertiary servers if need > be. For example: > > - some_module: ... > register: primary_result > ignore_errors: yes > > - some_module: ... > register: secondary_result > when: primary_result|failed > ignore_errors: yes > > - some_module: ... > register: tertiary_result > when: primary_result|failed and secondary_result|failed > > Hope that helps! > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Pedro Romano <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> For tasks that depend, for example, on remote servers, it would be very >> useful to be able to retry the task with a list of items for the remote >> server names until the task was successful. This would enable defining >> secondary/fallback servers easily. Is there any elegant way to this with >> Ansible currently? >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/da9e06af-1480-4fdd-af33-0563c18f2d8b%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/da9e06af-1480-4fdd-af33-0563c18f2d8b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/69b126ba-78a0-408a-ab25-786e98915d32%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
