include tasks from another role in ansible playbook

Question

I\'m designing a kind of playbook lib with individual tasks

so in the usual roles repo, I have something like:

roles
├── common
│   └── tasks
│       ├──         


        

Answer 1

Yes, Ansible doesn't really like tasks as individual components. I think it wants you to use roles, but I can see why you wouldn't want to use roles for simple, reusable tasks.

I currently see two possible solutions:

1. Make those task-files into roles and use dependencies

Then you could do something like this in e.g. custom_stuff_workflow

dependencies:
  - { role: login }

See: https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html#role-dependencies

2. Use include with "hardcoded" paths to the task files

- include: ../../common/tasks/login.yml

That worked pretty well in a short test playbook I just did. Keep in mind, you can also use parameters etc. in those includes.

See: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_reuse.html

I hope I understood that question correctly and this helps.