Brilliant! Works perfectly! Thank you so much. :) On Friday, October 5, 2018 at 3:01:25 PM UTC-7, Kai Stian Olstad wrote: > > On 05.10.2018 22:59, bglowacki wrote: > > What I would like is to be able to specify 5 agents "at a time," > > meaning > > that, when one of the 5 agents finishes with the patching play, it will > > automatically start the play against another agent - always keeping the > > maximum number of agents getting patched at any give time to be 5. That > > way, if one agent is blocked for 8 hours, the remaining 4 slots can be > > used > > to cycle through the remaining build agents - and so on. > > > > Is there some combination of the serial/forks options that would > > provide me > > this kind of capability - or am I asking for a new feature enhancement? > > This is not possible with Ansible itself, you have strategy: free, but > it still wait for all hosts in the serial batch to finished before > moving to next set of hosts. > > What you can do is use parallel or xargs to accomplish this. > This will run 5 ansible-playbook in parallel, each ansible-playbook is > limited to one host. > > ansible-playbook playbook.yml --list-hosts | sed -e '1,/hosts/d' -e > 's/^ *//' | xargs -P5 -n1 ansible-playbook playbook.yml --limit > > This would only work well if you don't need to type in passwords. > > -- > Kai Stian Olstad >
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