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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 1707

Ansible start-at-task from within Vagrant

Is there a method to using Ansible's start-at-task from within a Vagrantfile? I want to specify the exact task to start at for debugging purposes. I realize host vars will be missing, this is fine. Other similar questions don't seem to be asking exactly this.

One idea is to set an ENV_VAR, Vagrant populates that and passes it to the playbook. ie:

# export START_TASK='task-name'
# Run: "vagrant provision --provision-with resume"

  config.vm.provision "resume", type: "ansible_local" do |resume|
    resume.playbook = "playbooks/playbook.yml --start-at-task=ENV['START_TASK']"
  end

The playbook command doesn't parse the env_var like that but I'm essentially trying to run that command. I'm basically just trying to parse that env_var and pass it to Vagrant ansible provisioner.

Note: @retry on the playbook only re-runs the entire failed playbook for that single host not just a single command so that's not a solution.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 886

Answers (1)

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 1707

Just needed to add the following, which I couldn't find anywhere in Vagrant's documentation.

resume.start_at_task = ENV['START_AT_TASK']

Upvotes: 4

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