Mark playbook execution as complete when certain file is present in remote system

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Hi

We are planning to run our infrastructure on Ansible Pull Mode so all the host machines will keep on polling every few minutes.

In a single outside.yml file, we will have around 8 playbooks.

I want to mark a specific whole playbook as completed if there is certain file present in a remote system.

What is the most ideal way to achieve this ?

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It's not possible to mark the execution as complete, but you could skip a role.

Put the playbook in its own file, lets say play1.yml

In outside.yml use stat module to check if the file exist and register the result in a variable e.g. result and then you can include the role like this

- include: play.yml
   when: result.stat.exists == false