delegate_to on included tasks?

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I have a sequence of actions that I’ve encapsulated in a task, and that in some use-cases I need to run on a remote server.

Rather than duplicating the task, I’m going to try:

  • put a delegate_to: ${target} on each action in the task
  • designate the target (localhost or remote_server) on the include: as needed

and hope the above works. But it would be very nice to have a delegate_to: on the include/task call.

2

The concept of modifying task and playbook includes to auto-affix
other properties is conceptually interesting.

Please file a feature request in github so we don't forget.

3

Same observation for tags

  • include:
    tag:
  • apache
4

Issue #2480

5

You can already do this, just not with that syntax. It works inline.

- include: some/file.yml tags=asdf,jkl,1234

Of course, both should be made to work.

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It does work very nicely, thanks.

The ability to do this is pretty much “make or break” to the usage of tags for us. Therefore, I’ll submit a doc improvement ticket for this so that the section on tags in the “Advanced Playbook” section specifically mentions this syntax. The only place I found a reference to this, post-facto, was in the examples, and I tend to go to those once I know a feature already exists.

I will also submit an enhancement to support the action-like syntax for tags in addition to the current behavior.