Sounds like you might need --start-at-task
see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_startnstep.html
It's been a while since I looked at the Tower ui but I think its an option
on the each job from what I remember.
Hope this helps,
Jon
On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 12:49:29 AM UTC+1, mgoldsb wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm trying to implement an ad-hoc "restart" functionality in Ansible
> Tower similar to what is in the core Ansible CLI. My idea is that, if a
> deployment fails, I can restart it at the tag that it failed at--however,
> if I specify this tag in the deployment, it will ONLY run that tag. I am
> looking for a way such the deployment will *start* running at that specific
> tag and then continue to all of the subsequent tasks.
>
> I can see one potential method whereby tags are added sequentially with
> each task. For instance,
>
> * - name: First task*
> * shell: echo "Kilroy Was Here" > /home/mgoldsb/Hello.txt*
> * failed_when: "{{ First }} == true"*
> * tags:*
> * - First_Task*
>
> * - name: Second task*
> * shell: echo "Kilroy Was Here" > /home/mgoldsb/World.txt*
> * failed_when: "{{ Second }} == true"*
> * tags:*
> * - First_Task*
> * - Second_Task*
>
> * - name: Third task*
> * #shell: echo "Kilroy Was Here" > /home/mgoldsb/Hows.txt*
> * shell: rm -f testthis.txt*
> * failed_when: "{{ Third }} == true"*
>
> * tags: - First_Task*
> * - Second_Task*
> * - Third_Task*
>
> * - name: Fourth task*
> * shell: echo "Kilroy Was Here" > /home/mgoldsb/It.txt*
> * failed_when: "{{ Fourth }} == true"*
>
> * tags: - First_Task*
> * - Second_Task*
> * - Third_Task*
> * - Fourth_Task*
>
> * - name: Fifth task*
> * shell: echo "Kilroy Was Here" > /home/mgoldsb/Going.txt*
> * failed_when: "{{ Fifth }} == true"*
>
> * tags: - First_Task*
> * - Second_Task*
> * - Third_Task*
> * - Fourth_Task*
> * - First_Task*
>
> However, I would much rather prefer only having a single tag for each task
> that uniquely refers to that task.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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