Notify without using handlers?

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Hi,

In my cookbook, I have a lot of notify statements, e.g.

notify:

  • restart apache

notify:

  • restart mysql

handlers:

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

…many handlers…

And all these need to be specified in handlers, sound not elegant, right?
are there any better way to do it? e.g. notify to restart directly?

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You can always have the “service: name=httpd state=restarted” anywhere in your play, as long as isn’t required that it be run at the end of the play. There is no requirement that it has to be specified in a handler.