Hello all:
I've been Googling for a couple hours trying to find a way to pass tags
to a role from within a playbook. The goal is to build a utility role with
common tasks (mount a filesystem, add specific users, etc.). So far it's
not working.
I've tried:
Inside my utility role main.yml:
- name: "Task 1"
include: task1.yml
tags: utility_task1
- name: "Task 2"
include: task2.yml
tags: utility_task2
- name: "Task 3"
include: task3.yml
tags: utility_task3
This works fine if I pass the tag from the command line: ansible-playbook
playbooks/foo.yml -t "utility_task2"
However, it does not work when called from a playbook like this:
roles:
- { role: utility, tags: "utility_task2" }
Google searches show there is an ansible.cfg setting for "gathering=smart"
or "gathering=implicit" that can change the behaviour but so far neither
seems to make a difference.
My workaround is currently to set an extra variable (e.g., --extra-vars
"utility_task=task1" ) then use a when: on each separate task. This works
but the output is very messy: I.e., it prints a "skipping:" message for
every other task in the role. As the number of separate tasks in a role
grow, these skips will rise exponentially.
Is there a cleaner, Ansible way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Kwan
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