Operate on that play attribute to make things faster for larger
inventories. Instead of making a round trip through inventory.list_hosts
and working through some lengthy list comprehensions over and over
again, calculate the potenital hosts for a play once, then reduce from
it the unavailable hosts when necessary.
Also moves how the %fail is done. The host count is a play level count
of available hosts, which then is compared after each task to the
current number of available hosts for the play. This used to get a new
count every task which was also time expensive.
Users of these features should use "when:" as documented at docs.ansible.com.
Similarly, include + with_items has been removed. The solution is to loop
inside the task files, see with_nested / with_together, etc.
Using ANSIBLE_ROLE_PATH environment variable or role_path in ansible.cfg
can configure paths where roles will be searched for
extra paths will only be used as a backup once regular locations are exhausted
Previously, includes had to receive variables via a special 'vars'
field. With this patch, the include syntax becomes a more natural
datastructure without special fields and is more akin to the way
role includes/dependencies work.
Tested with the following playbook:
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
tasks:
- { include: inc1.yml, a: 1 }
- include: inc2.yml
b: 2
- include: inc3.yml
with_items:
- x
- y
- z
Fixes#3481
Still compatible with user: but deprecating it so we can have
a matching remote_user: in tasks, cannot be user: because of the
module of the same name. #3932
Signed-off-by: Brian Coca <briancoca+dev@gmail.com>
The play was just checking for the presence of the keyword in the
YAML datastructure, and not the value of the field, so doing something
like variable substitution was always causing the play to be accelerated
* Default variables are now fed directly into roles, just like the
other variables, so that roles see their unique values rather
than those set at the global level.
* Role dependency duplicates are now determined by checking the params used
when specifying them as dependencies rather than just on the name of the
role. For example, the following would be included twice without having
to specify "allow_duplicates: true":
dependencies:
- { role: foo, x: 1 }
- { role: foo, x: 2 }
