which tags are being used in runtime?

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Hello all, is there a way to know during playbook execution which tags it was called with in command line with -t ?

I mean given ansible-playbook -t x,y,z how do I know inside the playbook I am only executing tasks with those tags?

Thanks

2

either there’s a tag: name in the playbook or in the tasks.

3

ansible_run_tags

4

great! thanks a lot!

5
  • debug: var=ansible_run_tags

tags: [‘always’]

is not giving me anything.

are you sure Brian?

thanks for the help.

6

it reflects tags used at runtime, not those defined on the task.

7

hummm, that’s it:

I tried:

  • debug: var=ansible_run_tags
    tags: [‘delete’]

and I run:

ansible-playbook -t delete pb.yml

and I get:

TASK [debug] *************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
“ansible_run_tags”: “VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!”
}

wrong?

thanks.

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hummm, that's it:

I tried:

- debug: var=ansible_run_tags
tags: ['delete']

Indentation of tags if off, you should add two spaces.

and I run:

ansible-playbook -t delete pb.yml

and I get:

TASK [debug]
*************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "ansible_run_tags": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}

wrong?

It work an Ansible 2.6.3

9

Identation was a e-mail body problem.

I think it should be my version. I will try to update it.

Thanks a lot.

10

Kai, thanks, it was my version 2.4.2, updated to 2.6.3.

Working now.

Thanks a lot to all.

11

ansible_run_tags was added in 2.5.