Ansible: Can I execute role from command line?

Question

Suppose I have a role called "apache"

Now I want to execute that role on host 192.168.0.10 from the command line from Ansible host

ansible-playbook -i  "192.168.0.10" --role  "path to role" 

Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

With ansible 2.7 you can do this:

$ cd /path/to/ansible/ $ ansible localhost -m include_role -a name=<role_name> localhost | SUCCESS => {     "changed": false,     "include_variables": {         "name": "<role_name>"     } } localhost | SUCCESS => {     "msg": "<role_name>" } 

This will run role from /path/to/ansible/roles or configured role path.

Read more here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43131