How to run a playbook from a specific task in Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created a playbook. This playbook contains lots of tasks. I want to run the playbook from a specific task. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

The --start-at-task option allows you to start the execution of a playbook from a specific task. It takes an argument about the name of the task at which to start. You can see the below command.

$ ansible-playbook play.yml --start-at-task="Task Name"