Ansible noop, resume, and skip

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:29:11 +0000

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

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