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Rerunning same Ansible task a few times

I am trying to implement a task that runs in a loop, for example, ten times. Currently, the task runs only once.

I am trying something like the following:

my_role/tasks/main.yaml

---

- set_fact: 
    counter: 0

- name: "Iteration"
  import_task: my_task.yaml
  until: counter <= 10

...

my_role/tasks/my_task.yaml

---

- name: "task 1"
  ...

- name: "task 2"
  ...

- set_fact:
    counter=={{ counter | int + 1 }}
...

I expected "task 1" and "task 2" to run ten times.

I would be happy to get some ideas on how to implement such loop.

Solution

  • You should use include_tasks module and loop over it.

    my_role/tasks/main.yaml

    ---

- name: "Iteration"
  ansible.builtin.include_tasks:
    file: my_task.yaml
  with_sequence: start=1 end=10

...

    my_role/tasks/my_task.yaml

    ---

- name: "task 1"
  ...

- name: "task 2"
  ...

...