It’s been frequently requested that we needed a better way do this:
-
action: service name=foo state=running
register: some_result
when: x == 3 -
action: shell echo ‘some random example’
when: some_result.changed
However, before this could not be done easily, as ‘skipped’ tasks (when x was not 3) did not register variables, so you could not access some_result.changed consistently.
I have now fixed the glitch so the above example works.