Hi Steve, Take a look at check_mode and assess your playbook to see which features are you can safely change, ie those that do not make change.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_checkmode.html Regards Steve Maher > On 7 Sep 2022, at 16:36, Steve Button <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to add some "shift left" to my Ansible, so that mistakes don't > creep in. Firstly, I thought I would run --check (perhaps as a git pre-commit > hook or perhaps in Jenkins pipeline eventually). So, I tried it locally. > Unfortunately it bombs out in several places, as some tasks are reliant on > the output of other tasks. Not a great problem, as I've added > > when: not ansible_check_mode > > to those tasks. > > Is there a better way of achieving this? Particularly it would be useful to > check that variables are set to something sensible (catch typos or just > missed variables) BEFORE it goes into production. We have vars files based on > environments, so these don't get checked until we actually deploy to that > environment. > > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/aa334744-9303-42ea-8017-58e2afd52719n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/aa334744-9303-42ea-8017-58e2afd52719n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/9DA8BDE9-D335-4C1D-892E-9A734F7D41BA%40gmail.com.
