Serial: 1 only for one play

[Gin]

Hi,

When I set serial:1 for one of the plays in a playbook, the whole playbook is then processed one host at a time.

Is this the intended behaviour?

Is it possible to apply serial:1 only to one play? 

E.g. if I have a playbook comprising three plays: p1, p2 (with serial:1) and p3 then p1 and p3 would be executed in parallel across relevant hosts and the p2 would run sequentially for each host.

Ansible 2.3.1.0

Thanks,

Gintas

[Kai Stian Olstad]

> When I set serial:1 for one of the plays in a playbook, the whole
> playbook
> is then processed one host at a time.
> Is this the intended behaviour?

I can't confirm this on 2.3.1

> Is it possible to apply serial:1 only to one play?
> E.g. if I have a playbook comprising three plays: p1, p2 (with
> serial:1)
> and p3 then p1 and p3 would be executed in parallel across relevant
> hosts
> and the p2 would run sequentially for each host.

It does work like that.

playbook.yml
---
- name: p1
hosts: all
tasks:
- name: Task p1
raw: hostname

- name: p2
hosts: all
serial: 1
tasks:
- name: Task p2
raw: hostname

- name: p3
hosts: all
tasks:
- name: Task p3
raw: hostname

Result:

PLAY [p1] ******************************

TASK [Task p1] *************************
changed: [a1]
changed: [a2]

PLAY [p2] ******************************

TASK [Task p2] *************************
changed: [a1]

PLAY [p2] ******************************

TASK [Task p2] *************************
changed: [a2]

PLAY [p3] ******************************

TASK [Task p3] *************************
changed: [a2]
changed: [a1]

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Gintautas Sulskus]

Thanks for the response Kai.

Now it is working for me as well. I can no longer reproduce the problem.

Apologies for the false alarm.

Best,
Gintas

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