# How not to deploy an old version of an ansible playbook? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 21, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-not-to-deploy-an-old-version-of-an-ansible-playbook/20942 "2016-03-21T11:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guillaume\_Charhon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@Guillaume\_Charhon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guillaume_Charhon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-not-to-deploy-an-old-version-of-an-ansible-playbook/20942/1 "2016-03-21T11:30:43Z")
Hello, We are a team of 10 people. Our ansible playbooks are hosted on a git repository. It happens that someone deploys an outdated version of a playbook on machine because he forgot to do a git pull before deploying. Do you have a strategy to avoid this issue? Thank you for your help, poiuytrez ---
**Author:** ![Michel\_Blanc1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Michel\_Blanc1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michel_Blanc1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-not-to-deploy-an-old-version-of-an-ansible-playbook/20942/2 "2016-03-21T11:39:38Z")
Hi Guillaume, I see two quick solutions: - have people login to a bastion host which serves as a deployment machine (may be some 'git checkout && git pull' trick in .bashrc) - use tags, deploy a "version" file and do a "remote\_tag | version\_compare(current\_tag, '\>=')"; this woould involve some local tricks to get the latest tag (e.g. git describe --always --tag | cut -f 1 -d'-'). However the latter is really workflow dependent, and requires some discipline setting tags (and thus might just move the problem elsewhere instead of fixing it). M ---
**Author:** ![Guillaume\_Charhon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@Guillaume\_Charhon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guillaume_Charhon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-not-to-deploy-an-old-version-of-an-ansible-playbook/20942/3 "2016-03-22T08:55:47Z")
Thank you Michel for your suggestions.