Run a single role in playbook

[Andrew Craft]

In the same way that you can use tags to target specific tasks in a large playbook, is it possible to filter by roles? Tags are useful but often find i am tagging all tasks in a role with same tag so i can run just those, would be nice if I could use roles in a similar way to filter as tags?

thanks

[Pål Nilsen]

You could always create a separate file with something like:

-
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - role1
    - role2

ansible-playbook -i hosts the_file_above.yml --limit host1,host2

It gets cumbersome to edit that file or create new ones all the time though, but I don't know of a better way. I always tag all my tasks inside roles with sensible tags to easily filter with --tags / --skip-tags, though.

[junkmailt...@gmail.com]

You can tag your role just like anything else. Doing so effectively runs the role as if every task inside the role has the tag.

roles:
  - role: myCoolRole, 
    tags: tagsAreCool

[Andrew Craft]

yep but have to go through and do it for each role and each playbook i want to that, would be nice if there was something like an implicit tag for each role.

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