Ansible noop, resume, and skip

February 21, 2023 One-minute read

Put one noop task at the beginning and end of your role:

---

- name: ToolInstall
  ansible.builtin.meta: noop

# ...

- name: ToolInstallEnd
  ansible.builtin.meta: noop

Now you can resume from where you left off with:

ansible-playbook playbooks/tool/install.yml --start-at-task=ToolInstall

And you can skip over that role and everything before it with:

ansible-playbook playbooks/tool/install.yml --start-at-task=ToolInstallEnd