How do I include another playbook in current playbook?

[Xinhuan Zheng]

Hello,

I created a playbook which needs to call another playbook. This is my current playbook:

---

# file: current_playbook.yml

- hosts: mywebservers

  gather_facts: yes

#- import_playbook: another.yml

  roles:

    - role: testrole1

      tags: testrole1

  post_tasks:

    - name: Install configuration file

      template:

        src: myconf.j2

        dest: /remote-path/myconf

      tags: testrole1

    - name: Install cron

      cron:

         name: 'run every day'

         minute: '0'

         hour: '0'

         job: "/remote-path/job"

       tags: testrole1

I want to run playbook like: ansible-playbook -i myinventory -l mywebservers current_playbook.yml --tags testrole1. But another.yml playbook needs to run first. Here is another.yml playbook:

---

# file: another.yml

- hosts: all

  gather_facts: yes

  roles:

    - role: myrole1

    - role: myrole2

When I comment back in `#- import_playbook: another.yml' line in current_playbook.yml file, I got below error:

ERROR! 'roles' is not a valid attribute for a PlaybookInclude

- import_playbook: another.yml
  ^ here

How do I call another.yml playbook in my current_playbook.yml file?

Thank you,

- Xinhuan Zheng

[Mauricio Tavares]

Take a look again at the example in
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/import_playbook_module.html.
To me it does not know where

roles:
- role: testrole1
tags: testrole1

belongs. Should it be

- hosts: mywebservers
gather_facts: yes

roles:
- role: testrole1
tags: testrole1

#- import_playbook: another.yml

i.e. those roles are related to mywebservers? Or are they related to
all hosts as defined in another.yml?

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[Xinhuan Zheng]

      Take a look again at the example in
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/import_playbook_module.html.
To me it does not know where


  roles:
    - role: testrole1
      tags: testrole1

belongs. Should it be

- hosts: mywebservers
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: testrole1
      tags: testrole1

#- import_playbook: another.yml

i.e. those roles are related to mywebservers? Or are they related to
all hosts as defined in another.yml?

testrole1 belongs to mywebservers. It isn't related to all hosts as defined in another.yml file. However, another.yml file needs to be called first. I tried using pre_tasks with import_playbook. It doesn't work either. I also tried using include, still not working. Since another.yml file contains a list of roles, it is supposed to be import_playbook, but I'm not sure how to make import_playbook working in current_playbook.yml file.

Thanks again,

- Xinhuan

[alicia]

You cannot import a playbook anywhere inside a play - importing a playbook is a play of its own. 

If you want to run the imported playbook first, try:

- name: this play runs ‘another.yml' on the hosts it defines

  import_playbook: another.yml

- name: this play runs two roles on all hosts in the mywebservers group

  hosts: mywebservers

  gather_facts: yes

  roles:

    - role: testrole1

      tags: testrole1

    - role: testrole2

      tags: othertag

If you want to run the roles first, reverse the order of the two plays.

You can also review the general documentation on importing and including at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/playbooks_reuse.html. You may want to edit “another.yml” to make it a tasks file instead of a playbook for greater flexibility.

Hope this helps,

Alicia

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[Xinhuan Zheng]

Hello Alicia,

This is great. I got the idea. Thanks for your help!

- Xinhuan

  import_playbook: another.yml

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