One loop over multiple Ansible tasks

Question

I\'ve created an Ansible playbook that creates a cloud instance and then installs some programs on the instance. I want to run this playbook multiple times (without using a

Answer 1

I managed to do this by recursively including the same yaml file based on a condition. Here is the gist: https://gist.github.com/ParagDoke/5ddfc3d5647ce9b0110d1b9790090092. Effectively, in your playbook, include a file with some vars:

  - name: Invoke poller
    vars:
      some_condition: '"failed" not in response.content and response.json.status=="running"'
    include_tasks: status-poller.yml

Then in status-poller.yml, include itself:

- include_tasks: includes/status-poller.yml
  when: some_condition