Feature Request: pre_tasks and post_tasks for each role.

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I want to have two or more task stages for roles, one for initialization and one for installation / configuration.

My initial thoughts were to use the pre_task and post_tasks for each role, though I realise they were intended for load balancing.

Here is an example usage:

roles/mariadb/pre_tasks/main.yml

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Ok, so looking at the above I’m thinking you don’t need pre_tasks and post_tasks for this.

What you should do is have a role that sets up your keys/repos, call it “repos”, OR just prefix your repo setup before your tasks for installation.

You could then make a role named “update packages” and put it at the end if you want.

roles:

  • repo_setup # optional
  • mariadb
  • update_all

Would that work? I’d probably just set up the repos in the mariadb role if it were me, but I would probably use tasks includes to break things up into multiple files
if the tasks got too long.

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Thanks for looking at this.

Yes, there are other ways i could achieve this - either through additional roles or just by taking the performance penalty of updating the repo database for each role.

I did like the cleanliness of keeping everything related to a role inside its own folder, as i’m looking to open source the role files, so would probably go for the latter.

Would you consider a patch for adding these stages, or are you opposed to the idea ?