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The easiest way to run only one task in Ansible Playbook is using the tags statement parameter of the “ansible-playbook” command. The default behavior is to execute all the tags in your Playbook with --tags all .
Ansible run_once parameter is used with a task, which you want to run once on first host. When used, this forces the Ansible controller to attempt execution on first host in the current hosts batch, then the result can be applied to the other remaining hosts in current batch.
Here's another way to do this:
- name: my command
command: echo stuff
when: "'groupname' not in group_names"
group_names is a magic variable as documented here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/special_variables.html :
group_names is a list (array) of all the groups the current host is in.
You can set a control variable in vars files located in group_vars/ or directly in hosts file like this:
[vagrant:vars]
test_var=true
[location-1]
192.168.33.10 hostname=apollo
[location-2]
192.168.33.20 hostname=zeus
[vagrant:children]
location-1
location-2
And run tasks like this:
- name: "test"
command: "echo {{test_var}}"
when: test_var is defined and test_var
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