How can I call a playbook multiple times? - ansible

Question

I have a main login that is as bellow:
- name: Register
hosts: "{{ host }}"
tasks:
- include_role:
name: ROLE_NAME
vars:
service: "{{ service }}"
I want to call my main login multiple time something like bellow:
- name: call main logic
tasks:
- import_playbook:
name: main-logic.yml
loop:
- host: "1"
service: "s1"
- host: "2"
service: "s2"
I didn't find any solution for that, is it possible? HOW?

Answer 1

If you for whatever reason have to run the playbook(s) sequentially create a batch. However, if you want to execute the playbook on all hosts sequentially one after another, use serial. See Setting the batch size with serial. The difference is that you'll see PLAY RECAP once. In the first case, you'll see PLAY RECAP three times.
Create batch
For example,
shell> cat create_batch.yml
- hosts: localhost
vars:
my_batch:
- {host: host1, service: s1}
- {host: host2, service: s2}
- {host: host3, service: s3}
tasks:
- command: which bash
register: which_bash
- copy:
dest: "{{ playbook_dir }}/batch.sh"
mode: "a+x"
content: |
{{ '#!' }}{{ which_bash.stdout }}
{% for i in my_batch %}
ansible-playbook main-logic.yml -e "host={{ i.host }}" -e "service={{ i.service }}"
{% endfor %}
gives
shell> cat batch.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
ansible-playbook main-logic.yml -e "host=host1" -e "service=s1"
ansible-playbook main-logic.yml -e "host=host2" -e "service=s2"
ansible-playbook main-logic.yml -e "host=host3" -e "service=s3"
Given the project tree for testing
shell> tree .
.
├── ansible.cfg
├── batch.sh
├── create_batch.yml
├── hosts
└── main-logic.yml
0 directories, 5 files
shell> cat ansible.cfg
[defaults]
gathering = explicit
inventory = $PWD/hosts
roles_path = $PWD/roles
remote_tmp = ~/.ansible/tmp
retry_files_enabled = false
stdout_callback = yaml
shell> cat hosts
host1
host2
host3
shell> cat main-logic.yml
- hosts: "{{ host }}"
tasks:
- debug:
msg: "{{ inventory_hostname }} {{ service }}"
The batch gives
shell> ./batch.sh
PLAY [host1] **************************************************************************************
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host1] =>
msg: host1 s1
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
host1: ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
PLAY [host2] **************************************************************************************
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host2] =>
msg: host2 s2
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
host2: ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
PLAY [host3] **************************************************************************************
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host3] =>
msg: host3 s3
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
host3: ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Setting the batch size with serial
Declare the below variables. For example, in group_vars/all
shell> cat group_vars/all/my_batch.yml
my_batch:
- {host: host1, service: s1}
- {host: host2, service: s2}
- {host: host3, service: s3}
my_batch_host_sevice: "{{ my_batch|
items2dict(key_name='host',
value_name='service') }}"
service: "{{ my_batch_host_sevice[inventory_hostname] }}"
Set serial: 1. The playbook will serve the remote hosts one after another
shell> cat main-logic.yml
- hosts: "{{ host }}"
serial: 1
tasks:
- debug:
var: ansible_play_batch
- debug:
msg: "{{ inventory_hostname }} {{ service }}"
gives
shell> ansible-playbook main-logic.yml -e host='host1:host2:host3'
PLAY [host1:host2:host3] **************************************************************************
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host1] =>
ansible_play_batch:
- host1
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host1] =>
msg: host1 s1
PLAY [host1:host2:host3] **************************************************************************
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host2] =>
ansible_play_batch:
- host2
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host2] =>
msg: host2 s2
PLAY [host1:host2:host3] **************************************************************************
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host3] =>
ansible_play_batch:
- host3
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************
ok: [host3] =>
msg: host3 s3
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************
host1: ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
host2: ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
host3: ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0