jansenm / ansible-test

A ansible test repository with playbooks that have NO real usecase. I just test some ansible features

Ansible Tests

Just a dumping ground for certain ansible test/checks/trys.

tags.yml

I wondered how applying tags to the include statement changes ansibles behaviours. So i wrote this little play to test. Using the makefile is required because the include files in the role 'tags-test' are generated with sed.

What i learned

• if there is a tag on the include task that is either 'always' or matches on of the tags selected for execution (on the command line) then all task in the included file will be executed regardless if or which tag they have. . Even if the tag is NOT part of the selected tags.
• if there is a tag on the include task that is not selected for execution or there is no tag on the include task then in the file only tasks with selected tags or with the always tag are executed. Task without tags will NOT be executed.

So it looks like a match on the include task (or always) trumps the tags in the file.

I btw. did not YET? check with multiple tags.