You know what happens, when you use goto, right? https://xkcd.com/292/
2014-06-26 8:59 GMT+02:00 'Petros Moisiadis' via Ansible Project < [email protected]>: > On 06/25/2014 11:46 PM, Nick Evgeniev wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to perform (in a loop) some tasks on host 'A' till something > happens on host 'B'. What is the 'best practice' of doing such things with > ansible? > > I saw loops over single task but this is not what I need (presumably), > unless I write a shell script which perform all the tasks by connecting to > different hosts and grabs the results. As the whole point of ansible (to > me) is to pull all the ssh commands out of scripts (and get rid of these > scripts too) > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/cb1bea17-3025-426e-b576-408a0dafad4c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/cb1bea17-3025-426e-b576-408a0dafad4c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > Ansible playbooks have not a mechanism for repeating a part of a playbook, > but this feature could be useful for your user case. For example, you could > write a series of tasks and add at the end of them a 'goback' task (by > creating a 'goback' action plugin) that lets you go back at the first task > of that group of tasks you want to repeat. That 'goback' task would of > course have the appropriate conditional, which would normally be set by the > repeating tasks. > > - name: Task one > modulename: ... > > - name: Task two > modulename: ... > > - name: Task three > modulename: ... > > - name: Go back to "Task one" (so, repeat tasks one to three) > goback: task="Task one" > when: somecondition > > > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/53ABC4BB.8020901%40yahoo.gr > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/53ABC4BB.8020901%40yahoo.gr?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEnKK1xG-DaH0E%3DZyOYLCMX9C3-%3DZU4OV7c5JVzFeuhiMD1MYw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
