Nesting Playbooks?

[Slim Slam]

Ansible v1.9.4

I have a playbook that I launch with:

$ ansible-playbook build.yml

build.yml includes set_os.yml (just a set of tasks) that launches some ec2 instances. build.yml looks like this.

- name: Build stuff
  hosts: localhost
  remote_user: ec2-user
  sudo: False
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - include: set_os.yml
    - include: build_soft.yml

At the end of build.yml above, I also include build_soft.yml which is another playbook:

---
- name: Configure the EC2 instance
  hosts: ec2hosts
  gather_facts: true
  tasks:
    - do something......

Although I've seen examples of multiple plays, Ansible doesn't seem to like this way of including

plays and immediately exists with:

ERROR: gather_facts [or hosts or tasks] is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

I need to immediately start configuring my new EC2 instances that have been stored in the "ec2hosts" group var. 

Is this way of nesting plays not supported or am I making a mistake somewhere else?

-J

[Timothy Gerla]

Since build_soft.yml is a full playbook and not just a list of tasks, like set_os.yml, the include shouldn't be indented to the same level. Try de-denting the build_soft.yml as far left as possible, and it should behave as expected.

-Tim

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[Slim Slam]

That was it. Thanks.

J