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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 loops and conditionals, apply to this statement.
  • This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
allow_duplicates
 no True
Overrides the role's metadata setting to allow using a role more than once with the same parameters.
defaults_from
 no main
File to load from a role's defaults/ directory.
name
 yes
The name of the role to be executed.
private
 no None
If True the variables from defaults/ and vars/ in a role will not be made available to the rest of the play.
tasks_from
 no main
File to load from a role's tasks/ directory.
vars_from
 no main
File to load from a role's vars/ directory.

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

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.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance Info

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