Using delegate_to in combination with roles in a playbook

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Hi,

Is it possible to delegate the execution of an entire play to a another host?

I have a playbook that contains a set of reusable roles, the tasks in these roles will not generally be delegated. However in this case I need to run the entire playbook delegated to a different host.

So either I need mechanism to “globally” delegate the execution of my playbook, or else a way to mark each of the roles when included in my playbook to have all of their tasks similarly delegated.

Is this functionality supported by Ansible?

Thanks,

Paul.

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Why not simply specify the ‘hosts:’ in that play as the ones you are wishing to delegate the tasks? If you need that to be more dynamic, you can use the group_by module to create the targeted group, and you can also use a variable for the ‘hosts:’.