include_role – Load and execute a role

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • Loads and executes a role as a task dynamically. This frees roles from the roles: directive and allows them to be treated more as tasks.
  • Unlike import_role, most keywords, including loop, with_items, and conditionals, apply to this statement.
  • The do until loop is not supported on include_role.
  • This module is also supported for Windows targets.

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.
apply
-
added in 2.7
Accepts a hash of task keywords (e.g. tags, become) that will be applied to the tasks within the include.
defaults_from
-
Default:
"main"
File to load from a role's defaults/ directory.
name
- / required
The name of the role to be executed.
private
-
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.
public
boolean
added in 2.7
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
This option dictates whether the role's vars and defaults are exposed to the playbook. If set to yes the variables will be available to tasks following the include_role task. This functionality differs from standard variable exposure for roles listed under the roles header or import_role as they are exposed at playbook parsing time, and available to earlier roles and tasks as well.
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.
  • Before Ansible 2.4, as with include, this task could be static or dynamic, If static, it implied that it won’t need templating, loops or conditionals and will show included tasks in the –list options. Ansible would try to autodetect what is needed, but you can set static to yes or no at task level to control this.
  • After Ansible 2.4, you can use import_role for ‘static’ behaviour and this action for ‘dynamic’ one.

Examples

- include_role:
    name: myrole

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

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

- name: Use role in loop
  include_role:
    name: myrole
  with_items:
    - '{{ roleinput1 }}'
    - '{{ roleinput2 }}'
  loop_control:
    loop_var: roleinputvar

- name: Conditional role
  include_role:
    name: myrole
  when: not idontwanttorun

- name: Apply tags to tasks within included file
  include_role:
    name: install
    apply:
      tags:
        - install
  tags:
    - always

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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