Tags

Created Donnerstag 20 Februar 2020

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Mark a task with a, well, tag.
You can call tagged task with command line arguments.

Syntax

Variant 1

- ...
  tags:
    - <tag>
    - <tag>
    - ...

Varaint 2

- ...
  tags: <tag>

Variant 3

- ...
  tags: [ <tag>, <tag>, ... ]

Special tags

always

This will always run a task, unless specifically skipped (--skip-tags always)
-> Fact gathering is tagged with it by default.

never

This will never run a task, unless it's tag (includes never) is specifically requested.

Start playbook tasks with tag(s)

$ ansible-playbook <playbook> --tags "<tag>,<tag>,..."

Examples

$ ansible-playbook example.yml --tags "configuration,packages"

Start playbook tasks which have not this tag(s)

$ ansible-playbook <playbook> --skip-tags "<tag>,<tag>,..."

Examples

$ ansible-playbook example.yml --skip-tags "packages"

List tags for a playbook

$ ansible-playbook <playbook> --list-tags

List tasks associaated with tags

$ ansible-playbook <playbook> --tags "<tag>,..." --list-tags