Hey Daniel, thanks for your answer.
Actually, I am also working with role dependencies at the moment, which is fine for the time being for structuring a play. The new plugin feature of running roles against hostgroups reduced the need for me to run playbooks directly. However, it's a bit of a pity that all the playbook-level features of Ansible like serial execution cannot be used at the moment. I suppose, we can leave it with just roles for now but maybe we need to find some ways in order to be able to make use of the playbook-level Ansible features if required. --Gerrit On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 4:06:27 PM UTC+1, Daniel Lobato wrote: > > On 12/23, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > currently, the Ansible plugin is limited to execute Ansible roles. > However, > > there are several reasons for considering direct Ansible playbook > > execution. > > > > Just with roles, there is a lack of control over the execution order as > the > > structuring element, the playbook, is statically created by the plugin. > In > > addition to that, some fundamental features of Ansible on playbook-level > > cannot be used with roles, for example strategies > > < > http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_delegation.html#rolling-update-batch-size> > > > > Dependencies and ordering with roles can be accomplished at the role > level (not via Foreman) - check > http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_roles.html#role-dependencies > > > Therefore, I think, that the plugin should support playbook execution, > not > > just role execution. > > > > What do you think about this? I would really appreciate some more > thoughts > > before starting to work on this. > > I'm afraid it's an area where the project clashes with Ansible Tower > quite a lot. To be fair I think playbooks would fit better as another > provider for Foreman remote execution model. Unfortunately I couldn't > finish the provider, but it worked (for my dev usecase :) ) > > https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_ansible/pull/18 > > > > > Thanks for reading. > > > > --Gerrit > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "foreman-dev" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Daniel Lobato Garcia > > @dLobatog > blog.daniellobato.me > daniellobato.me > > GPG: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7A92D6DD38D6DE30 > Keybase: https://keybase.io/elobato > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
