Serial: 1 only for one play

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Hi,

When I set serial:1 for one of the plays in a playbook, the whole playbook is then processed one host at a time.
Is this the intended behaviour?

Is it possible to apply serial:1 only to one play?
E.g. if I have a playbook comprising three plays: p1, p2 (with serial:1) and p3 then p1 and p3 would be executed in parallel across relevant hosts and the p2 would run sequentially for each host.

Ansible 2.3.1.0

Thanks,
Gintas

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When I set serial:1 for one of the plays in a playbook, the whole playbook
is then processed one host at a time.
Is this the intended behaviour?

I can't confirm this on 2.3.1

Is it possible to apply serial:1 only to one play?
E.g. if I have a playbook comprising three plays: p1, p2 (with serial:1)
and p3 then p1 and p3 would be executed in parallel across relevant hosts
and the p2 would run sequentially for each host.

It does work like that.

playbook.yml

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Thanks for the response Kai.

Now it is working for me as well. I can no longer reproduce the problem.

Apologies for the false alarm.

Best,
Gintas