import_role – Import a role into a play

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Much like the roles: keyword, this task loads a role, but it allows you to control it when the role tasks run in between other tasks of the play.
  • Most keywords, loops and conditionals will only be applied to the imported tasks, not to this statement itself. If you want the opposite behavior, use include_role instead. To better understand the difference you can read the Including and Importing Guide.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
allow_duplicates
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Overrides the role's metadata setting to allow using a role more than once with the same parameters.
defaults_from
-
Default:
"main"
File to load from a role's defaults/ directory.
name
- / required
The name of the role to be executed.
private
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
This option is a no op, and the functionality described in previous versions was not implemented. This option will be removed in Ansible v2.8.
tasks_from
-
Default:
"main"
File to load from a role's tasks/ directory.
vars_from
-
Default:
"main"
File to load from a role's vars/ directory.

Notes

Note

  • Handlers are made available to the whole play.
  • Since Ansible 2.7: variables defined in vars and defaults for the role are exposed at playbook parsing time. Due to this, these variables will be accessible to roles and tasks executed before the location of the import_role task.
  • Unlike include_role variable exposure is not configurable, and will always be exposed.

Examples

- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: myrole

    - name: Run tasks/other.yaml instead of 'main'
      import_role:
        name: myrole
        tasks_from: other

    - name: Pass variables to role
      import_role:
        name: myrole
      vars:
        rolevar1: value from task

    - name: Apply condition to each task in role
      import_role:
        name: myrole
      when: not idontwanttorun

Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team (@ansible)

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