# Ansible role execution order is not serial

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-execution-order-is-not-serial/21126>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [April 11, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-execution-order-is-not-serial/21126 "2016-04-11T08:04:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tung\_Nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tung\_Nguyen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tung_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-execution-order-is-not-serial/21126/1 "2016-04-11T08:04:00Z")

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I have a set of custom roles like this on AWS EC2

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-execution-order-is-not-serial/21126/2 "2016-04-12T03:41:14Z")

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you cannot have multiple roles: declarations per play, if you want to make this work in that order you need a 2nd play:

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**Author:** ![Josh\_Smift1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Josh\_Smift1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Josh_Smift1)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-execution-order-is-not-serial/21126/3 "2016-04-12T14:17:52Z")

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> you cannot have multiple roles: declarations per play, if you want to  
> make this work in that order you need a 2nd play:

If you really needed to do it in one play for some reason, you could have  
a 'pause' (or whatever) role, with one pause (or wait\_for) task.

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