Ansible Tags - Controls Tasks
Ansible playbook can be a construct of multiple plays or each play may contains multiple tasks. This is where we may have situation where you need to add new task to the existing play or playbook, and we need to test many times that newly added task. While testing multiple times we many don't want to execute certain tasks such as a task 'Send email notification' when you preparing a 'Reboot of server' or 'Restart of Service' or 'Deployment of a service'. During the testing time you may want to exclude these notification tasks. There are situations where we might want to run a particular task as per the input at the run time of a playbook. This may be from AWX/Tower UI select them. Ansible tags - to control the tasks of a Playbook I will be explaining in this post, How to run or not to run a particular task in given playbook. Important concepts about Ansible tags Ansible tags are keys to identify and control the tasks for execution or exclude fr...