Parallel execution of local actions with multiple items

[Baraa Basata]

Given a need to launch multiple cloud resources via local action, such as the below, is there a way to parallelize the execution of the task?

I think I'm looking for something like `--forks <n>`, except this is different in that there is only one host (localhost) involved in the play.

---

- hosts: localhost

  connection: local

  tasks:

    - local_action:

        module: rds

        name: "{{ item.name }}"

        ...

      with_items: rds_instances

[Brian Coca]

that is not currently a feature.




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Brian Coca

[Baraa Basata]

Thanks for confirming, Brian.

After more thought, I've decided to invoke the rds module with "wait: no" (the default value) and then add a task to poll until all newly spun-up instances are in the "available" state before performing other operations on them.

-Baraa