# Ansible role help for executing tags

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-help-for-executing-tags/39268>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** role\
**Created:** [December 20, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-help-for-executing-tags/39268 "2024-12-20T14:25:32Z")\
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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\> ?

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-role-help-for-executing-tags/39268/2 "2024-12-20T14:42:45Z")

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> [@USA\_Linux\_UAE](#):
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> 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](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_tags.html) 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.]