Kai:
Thank you for your response.
On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11:00:08 AM UTC-5, Kai Stian Olstad
wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15.58.47 CET DigitalHermit wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That's not possible.
>
I suspected as much...
>
> >
> > However, it does not work when called from a playbook like this:
> >
> > roles:
> > - { role: utility, tags: "utility_task2" }
>
> What you do here is adding the tag utility_task2 to all task in the role
> utility.
>
> As the documentation[1] say
> "Adding “tags:” in any part of a play (including roles) adds those tags to
> the contained tasks."
>
OK, that clarifies things a bunch.
> > Is there a cleaner, Ansible way to do this?
>
> Maybe, there's always many ways to tackle a challenge.
> Since you haven't shared the specifics it impossible to be specific.
>
>
Let me elaborate on my goal:
I have a library of roles. Each of these roles has common tasks across the
library. For example, both my install_nginx and install_elk roles have a
common task to create a filesystem.
E.g.:
roles/install_nginx/tasks/create_webdir.yml
roles/install_elk/tasks/create_datadir.yml
To simplify filesystem creation I created an adhoc_fs role and call it from
within the playbook with an include
- name: "Create datadir"
include_role:
name: adhoc_fs
vars:
adhoc_filesystems:
{ vol_group: 'data_vg', lv_mount: '/mnt/webdata1', lv_name:
'webdata1_lv', lv_size: '40G', owner: apache }
{ vol_group: 'data_vg', lv_mount: '/mnt/webdata2', lv_name:
'webdata2_lv', lv_size: '40G', owner: apache }
This works fine, but the problem is now that my library contains many of
these utility roles. I would prefer to have them all in a single role,
"utility" for example, and call them as needed. Typical tasks would be
user creation, iptables rules, etc..The point of this is to avoid
copying/pasting from role to role which will ease maintenance.
[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_tags.html
>
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> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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