playbook includes and tags

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I’m trying to add tags to tasks via includes but it doesn’t work as I expect. I have

$ cat site.yml
#- { include: foo.yml, tags: [ foo ] }

  • include: foo.yml tags=foo

$ cat foo.yml

  • hosts: all
    tasks:
  • name: foo
    debug: msg=foo

Then

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml -t foo
ERROR: tag(s) not found in playbook: foo. possible values:

Same error with 1.8.2 and current devel branch and with the other include syntax commented above.

Any help much appreciated,

Adam

2

Hi Adam,

This looks like it’s because you can add tags when pulling in roles, as well as tasks, but you can’t tag a playbook on an include.

It’s something that sounds reasonable, but probably not something that has been done before.

Try this:

  • hosts: all
    tasks:
  • include: my_tasks.yml tags=foo

Etc

And should be good to go.

Alternatively:

roles:

  • { name: foo, tags: [ ‘foo’, ‘bar’ ] }

etc

3

Yeah, I guess I misunderstood the docs (http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_tags.html) here.

Would you be open to a pull request to implement this?

Adam

4

Tenatively, yes, I don’t see a problem with it applying to all the tasks/roles if done simply enough.

However given the ongoing v2 refactoring we should probably wait until this is complete. This should be in 1.9 (current release) timeframe.