--check (dry run) fires notify handlers

[ja.garcia...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am runnig a playbook in check mode (--check --diff) to verify which changes are going to be applied in a service config file.

The problem is that the dry run thinks the change is applied and fires the notify handler, restarting the service with no change applied

On a production enviroment that can be catastrofical

¿ is there any way to avoid the handler on dry run mode ?

Example code:

task/main.yml

...

- name: configure elasticsearch

  template: src={{ item[1:] }}.j2 dest={{ item }}

            owner=root group=root mode=0644

  with_items:

    - '/etc/default/elasticsearch'

    - '{{ elasticsearch_path_conf }}/elasticsearch.yml'

    - '{{ elasticsearch_path_conf }}/logging.yml'

  notify:

    - restart elasticsearch

  tags:

    - configure

...

handlers/main.yml

...

- name: restart elasticsearch

  service: >

    name=elasticsearch

    state=restarted

    enabled=yes

...

Thanks in advance.