Includes with limits and tags?

[Josh Smift]

We have a playbook that restores some data from a backup to a host, and
afterwards we want to run another playbook that fixes up some things in
the backup, but that other playbook is more general, and does a whole
bunch of tasks, and affects all the hosts of this type. We'd rather only
run the tasks that we know we need to run (which are identified by a tag),
and only run them on the host they need to run on. Something like

- include: hosttype.yml
limit: "{{ restorehost }}"
tags: mytags

That actual code doesn't actually work, obviously.

Is there a way to do this within Ansible?

(We can do it by hand, obviously, but the restore playbook takes a long
time, and someone has to then remember to come along and run hosttype.yml
one when the restore is done. We could create a two-line shell script that
run both playbooks, but it'd be cool to just be able to do this with an
include.)

-Josh (j...@care.com)

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[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 03. mars 2017 17:06, Josh Smift wrote:
> We have a playbook that restores some data from a backup to a host, and
> afterwards we want to run another playbook that fixes up some things in
> the backup, but that other playbook is more general, and does a whole
> bunch of tasks, and affects all the hosts of this type. We'd rather only
> run the tasks that we know we need to run (which are identified by a tag),
> and only run them on the host they need to run on. Something like
>
> - include: hosttype.yml
> limit: "{{ restorehost }}"
> tags: mytags
>
> That actual code doesn't actually work, obviously.
>
> Is there a way to do this within Ansible?

You could do something like this if you are using ssh keys for login.
- command: ansible-playbook hosttype.yml -l {{ restorehost }} -t mytags

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Stankovic, Marko]

There's this feature request related to your question:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14117

Cheers,
Marko
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