I'm working on a project where typical ansible-playbook runs take a considerable amount of time - 3 hours at least, to refresh a small test environment. Be under no illusion we're "doing it right" - we're not. None the less, I'm tasked with making it all go faster, and I'm not in a position to change the architecture significantly.
I'm thinking of coming up with a process that compares a previously generated "state file" with the target host, using checksums on files handled by ansbile, git sha's from the role repository and the playbook repository, evaluation ansible-playbook version and extra-vars supplied on the command line. This would result in a bunch of either tags or skip-tags, in turn applied to ansible-playbook. It would be implemented as a wrapper script that will execute ansible-playbook. Does something like this exist? If you have an opinion on this approach, please share. I'm thick skinned. -- 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/9718548a-7064-40b6-849d-223eab1f1e80%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
