# deploy\_helper and parallel execution

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/deploy-helper-and-parallel-execution/26358>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/deploy-helper-and-parallel-execution/26358 "2017-12-21T16:08:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank\_Thilo\_Rohl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@Frank\_Thilo\_Rohl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Frank_Thilo_Rohl)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/deploy-helper-and-parallel-execution/26358/1 "2017-12-21T16:08:07Z")

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Hi,

im using an instance of deploy helper. This creates a subdirectory with a timestamp and then creates a link to this subdirectory.

I have seen cases where this link is created to a target which does not exists - only when I execute a script executing to two servers in parallel. It seems like there is no link per server but just one variable.

The obvious solution whould be to execute the scripts in serial format.

Is there another way I could use deploy\_helper with two servers in parallel ? I would like to set the timestamp just once for both servers - that would solve my issue.

ansible 2.2.0 (devel ff52e01a11) last updated 2016/09/19 09:30:50 (GMT +000)

Thilo