Run a single role in playbook

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In the same way that you can use tags to target specific tasks in a large playbook, is it possible to filter by roles? Tags are useful but often find i am tagging all tasks in a role with same tag so i can run just those, would be nice if I could use roles in a similar way to filter as tags?

thanks

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You could always create a separate file with something like:

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You can tag your role just like anything else. Doing so effectively runs the role as if every task inside the role has the tag.

`

roles:
  - role: myCoolRole,
    tags: tagsAreCool

`

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yep but have to go through and do it for each role and each playbook i want to that, would be nice if there was something like an implicit tag for each role.