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Johnny Brown
Johnny Brown

Reputation: 21

ansible handler only runs once when notified from parameterized role

I have an ansible playbook for some init services that are broadly similar with a few tweaks. In the top-level playbook, I include the role twice, like 

   roles:
     - {role: "my-service", service: webserver}
     - {role: "my-service", service: scheduler}

the my-service role has tasks, which write init scripts, and handlers, which (re)start the service. tasks/main.yml looks like this:

- name: setup init scripts
  template: src=../../service-common/templates/my-service.conf dest=/etc/init/my-{{ service }}.conf
  notify:
    - restart my service

and handlers/main.yml has this content:

- name: restart my services
  service: name=my-{{ service }} state=restarted

But after the playbook runs, we're left with only the webserver service running, and the scheduler is stop/waiting. How can I make the handler see these as two separate notifications to be handled?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 411

Answers (1)

Bruce P
Bruce P

Reputation: 20719

The Ansible documentation states:

Handlers are lists of tasks, not really any different from regular tasks, that are referenced by a globally unique name.

So it doesn't make use of any parameters, variables, etc. when determining when/how to invoke a handler. Only the name is used.

Upvotes: 1

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