Should --tags work for playbooks?

[Barry Kaplan]

I have:

---
- name: Dump data
  hosts: mesos_slave
  sudo: yes
  gather_facts: false
  tags:
    - mtc

  tasks:
    set_fact:
      dump_s3_bucket: product-data
    set_fact:
      dump_s3_folder: /dump

But trying to use --tags yields:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/aws/production playbooks/admin/backup-databases.yml -u ubuntu --tags mtc
ERROR: tag(s) not found in playbook: mtc.  possible values:

Of course the plays works without the --tags. And I have tried "tags: [mtc]", "tags: mtc" to the same effect.

[Barry Kaplan]

Very interesting. My tasks were wrong:

tasks:

  set_fact:

vs

tasks:

  - set_fact:

No errors so it looked like the tags were being ignored. Correctly task syntax and tags are not ignored.

[Brian Coca]

tags on plays should be applied to all tasks in the play, but the play
itself should not be skipped.


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Brian Coca