How to run only one role out of a playbook?

[akazi...@gmail.com]

Hello 

I have a site.yml which imports several playbooks. 

- import_playbook: webservers.yml

- ....

Every playbook "calls" several roles: 

- name: apply the webserver configuration

hosts: webservers

roles:

- javajdk

- tomcat

- apache

Now how can I run lets say only the javajdk role ?

ansible-playbook -i inventory/xx  webservers.yml      would run all roles...  I know that there are tags, but how do I assign them to a role in general?

Thanks a lot 

Michael

[Mischa ter Smitten]

If you tag the roles, you can use ansible-playbook --tags some-tag

[akazi...@gmail.com]

Hello thank,

well I can have - role: javajdk

                           tags: javajdk 

but this tags this role in this ONE palybook. But if I run an other playbook with - role: javajdk there is not tag.

So either I have to tag it every time or, smater, I would tag the role itself. But I have not found a method to do so

Michael 

[Brian Coca]

just reference the role directly, its much simpler than calling other
playbooks to just use one of their roles



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