Is there a way to run tasks that have ALL of the tasks given as parameters to ansible-playbook?

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

For example, let's pretend we have these tasks:

- name: Task 1
  tags:
    - foo
    - bar

- name: Task 2
  tags:
    - foo

- name: Task 3
  tags:
    - bar

Is there a way to only execute tasks that have both of foo and bar tags? That's, only execute Task 1?

[Douglas Duckworth]

Good question

I have also wondered if you can run tasks with all tags.  Eg -t all.

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[alanp...@gmail.com]

I don't think so. In this case, I would just give tasks that have both foo and bar as tags a third tag that will allow those tasks to be run. It's a little cumbersome, but it would work. However, as far as I know, there is no AND type of operator for tags.

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

> I would just give tasks that have both foo and bar as tags a third tag that will allow those tasks to be run

Unfortunately this won't work for me. I have multiple roles imported in my playbook:

    - { role: a, tags: ["a"] }

    - { role: b, tags: ["b"] }

    - { role: b, tags: ["c"] }

    - { role: c, tags: ["d"] }

So all tasks within role a inherit the tag a, the tasks within role b inherit the tag b, and so forth.

Inside these roles, some tasks are tagged with, say "x". I want to execute the "x" task in role "b".

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 12.10.2017 07:41, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
>> I would just give tasks that have both foo and bar as tags a third tag
> that will allow those tasks to be run
>
> Unfortunately this won't work for me. I have multiple roles imported in
> my
> playbook:
>
> - { role: a, tags: ["a"] }
> - { role: b, tags: ["b"] }
> - { role: b, tags: ["c"] }
> - { role: c, tags: ["d"] }
>
> So all tasks within role a inherit the tag a, the tasks within role b
> inherit the tag b, and so forth.
>
> Inside these roles, some tasks are tagged with, say "x". I want to
> execute
> the "x" task in role "b".

You can achieve this by using when on the role to check a variable that
you provide with extra_vars on the command line and keep the tags in the
roles.

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Kai Stian Olstad