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sorin
sorin

Reputation: 170470

How to switch user in ansible for entire sections?

I am fully aware about the become_user functionality in Ansible but there is something that I don't really get: how to easily perform actions as different users without having to specify the user for each of them.

It seems to be a real pain to add the become for every task, I am looking for a way to switch current user for multiple tasks.

Having to create new task files for each "block" would make the entire deployment logic quite hard to follow.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 85

Answers (1)

udondan
udondan

Reputation: 59989

There only are two options: Includes or blocks.

Includes are the only option in Ansible 1:

- include: run_as_user_x.yml
  become: true
  become_user: x

In Ansible 2 the blocks concept has been introduced:

- block:
    - some task
    - another task
    - task n
  become: true
  become_user: x

Upvotes: 2

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