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Here is ansible playbook, i given a tag and wanted to use it while i run the playbook, but it will still run the whole playbook

[ansible@centos1 ansible_playbooks]$ cat install_plays.yml
— # install software on multiple hosts

  • hosts: apacheweb
    remote_user: ansible
    connection: ssh
    become: yes
    become_method: sudo
    gather_facts: yes
    vars_files:

  • values.property
    tasks:

  • name: install apache
    yum: name={{ apache }} state=latest
    tags:

  • papa

  • name: copy the httpd.conf
    template: src=httpd.conf dest=/etc/httpd/conf
    notify:

  • restart apache
    handlers:

  • name: restart apache
    service: name=httpd state=restarted enabled=yes

  • hosts: appserver
    remote_user: ansible
    connection: ssh
    gather_facts: yes
    become: yes
    become_method: sudo
    vars_files:

  • values.property
    tasks:

  • name: Install telnet
    yum: name={{ package }} state=latest

  • hosts: debian
    remote_user: ansible
    connection: ssh
    become: yes
    become_method: sudo
    gather_facts: yes
    vars_files:

  • values.property
    tasks:

  • name: Install lynx
    apt: name={{ package1 }} state=latest

  • hosts: localhost
    remote_user: ansible
    connection: ssh
    gather_facts: yes
    become: yes
    become_method: sudo
    vars_files:

  • values.property
    tasks:

  • name: Install telnet
    yum: name={{ package }} state=latest
    [ansible@centos1 ansible_playbooks]$

[ansible@centos1 ansible_playbooks]$ ansible-playbook install_plays.yml --tags “papa”

PLAY [apacheweb] ***************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [centos2.ohari.com]

TASK [install apache] **********************************************************
ok: [centos2.ohari.com]

PLAY [appserver] ***************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [centos3.ohari.com]

PLAY [debian] ******************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [ubuntu2.ohari.com]

PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
centos2.ohari.com : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
centos3.ohari.com : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
localhost : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
ubuntu2.ohari.com : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0

[ansible@centos1 ansible_playbooks]$'

Thank you very much for helping me

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The tag is working correctly, the implicit ‘setup’ or ‘fact gathering’ has an ‘always’ tag so you need to explicitly exclude them.