Hello
Newbie , trying to understand how a single task in role can be executed ?
Is it possible in tasks/main.yml of roles to use ansible.tags and only execute ansible-playbook <role.yml> -i --tasks= <task.name> ?
No, not exactly. --tasks is not an option on ansible-playbook. (And -i will want a parameter, but ignoring that…)
However, you can tag a task (or a play if you have multiple plays in your playbook), and then run only the task(s)/play(s) with that tag with
ansible-playbook ... --tags=mytag
See the tags docs for lots of examples.
[EDIT: Forget what I said about tags on plays. It does more than just tag a play; it also implicitly tags all the tasks in that play (and probably statically loaded with it). Stick with the tasks bit at first.]
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