why use tags in an ansible playbook code example
Example 1: ansible example playbook
---
- name: update web servers
hosts: webservers
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: ensure apache is at the latest version
yum:
name: httpd
state: latest
- name: write the apache config file
template:
src: /srv/httpd.j2
dest: /etc/httpd.conf
- name: update db servers
hosts: databases
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: ensure postgresql is at the latest version
yum:
name: postgresql
state: latest
- name: ensure that postgresql is started
service:
name: postgresql
state: started
Example 2: how to use tags in ansible
# Tags goes at same indentation as name or service:
- name: Create Postgres Container
tags: createcontainer
docker_container:
name: mypostgres
...
# Then in the command line:
ansible-playbook myplaybook.yaml --tags createcontainer