How to only play tasks with specific tags in playbook

[Brendon Standing]

Hi all,

How do you play just the tasks with set tags in your playbook? From the command line you would do something like:
ansible-playbook -i staging deploy.yml --tags "do_stop, do_health_check"

I would expect do be able to do the same from the playbook like:
- hosts: somehosts
  roles:
  - { role: connect, tags: [ 'do_stop', 'do_health_check' ] }

However this is not working and it plays all the tasks in my role.

Regards,

Brendon

[Michael DeHaan]

Pass the "--tags" option to ansible-playbook to run only the tags you want to run.

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[Michael DeHaan]

What you did above, BTW, is apply the tag "do_stop" and "do_health_check" to every task in your role.  This isn't what you want, I'm guessing.

[Brendon Standing]

Thanks all. I know that I can call tags from the command line and that my example will apply new tags in my playbook. But to me a playbook by design should be able to run all the tasks that you need to run by calling the tags you have set in tasks/*.yml. Instead we are now presented with 2 options:
1. Write a wrapper script (oh no)
2. Further dismantle tasks into separate yml files so that you can call these with include in your playbook.

Surely a playbook by design should be a playbook?

Many thanks.

[Michael DeHaan]

"Surely a playbook by design should be a playbook?"

All ducks must quack, except when they are elephants.

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[Brendon Standing]

This is why I generally don't join forums. Clearly your experience is limited to a small component stack and I should have gone with Chef.

[Michael DeHaan]

Heh.  

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