Okay, what about making ansible run any queued up handlers just before exiting, even if it exits due to an error condition in a playbook?
Anand On Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:04:55 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan wrote: Not sure that's an option that fits all use cases. > > -- Michael > > On Nov 30, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Anand Buddhdev <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Friday, 29 November 2013 17:14:37 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Yep, this is a thing, there's no way to force running all of the handlers. >> >> >> There's a feature request open for something like --force-handlers that >> would be super easy to add. >> >> But would you generically want to run all of them in every case? Might >> not work for everyone. Might though. >> > > I have also run into this issue, where an error in a playbook will cause > ansible to stop, and fail to run any requested handlers, which can leave a > daemon running with an old configuration, for example. This kind of breaks > ansible's idempotent feature. Instead of --force-handlers, what about if > ansible were to maintain a persistent cache of requested handlers (in a > file, for example) and apply them at the next run? > > In our case, we use ansible in local mode, so we can't always see if a > playbook run failed or not, and if ansible kept a cache of handlers, and > deleted it only when they were applied, it would solve this problem without > requiring a --force-handlers option. > > Regards, > > Anand > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
