Hi,

I've had a look around for solutions to this problem, but surprisingly I'm 
starting to think it's not something supported out of the box with ansible.

I would like to define a play or series of plays which are called exactly 
once on a given group of hosts for each ansible run, at the very start and 
very end of that run, regardless of which role or roles are being executed. 
Optionally, the set of tasks at the end could only run if any of the other 
tasks run changed something (a sort of global_changed state), but this 
isn't essential. Using ro

The use-case is to run etckeeper before and after each run of ansible, to 
provide a definitive record of what changed on the server (at least as far 
as the configuration files in /etc go).

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might accomplish this? Would a 
new feature request be appropriate if it's not already achievable? Note 
that I wouldn't want to have to modify every playbook and/or role to 
achieve this, since that would inevitably lead to missed commits and 
default the point of having a complete changelog.

Just in case it isn't obvious: yes, I am managing the ansible playbooks in 
git already, but etckeeper provides a deeper view of what *actually* 
changed on the server and can be very helpful for looking back to figure 
out when/how something was misconfigured.

I would be interested to hear other solutions to this.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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