I have a playbook organized as follows (simplified for the sake of this question):
├── deploy.yml
├── hosts
├── requirements.yml
├── roles
│?? └── web
│?? ├── meta
│?? │?? └── main.yml
│?? └── tasks
│?? └── main.yml
└── site.retry
My simplified deploy.yml
is:
---
- name: Everything I need
hosts: somewhere
roles:
- web
And my simplified roles/web/tasks/main.yml
is
---
- name: Various things that work
become: yes
[whatever]
- name: the thing that I have a problem with
become: yes
davidedelvento.nbextension: name=foo state=present
This fails with:
ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.
So I tried to change roles/web/tasks/main.yml
to
---
- name: Various things that work
become: yes
[whatever]
- name: the thing that I have a problem with
become: yes
roles:
- { role: davidedelvento.nbextension, name: foo, state: present}
which fails in the same way. I understand the failure (since I cannot call a role from a task, which instead I'm doing -- but the error could be clearer....)
However I am not clear how can I accomplish what I'd like, namely doing whatever nbextension is doing at that point in time. I could move that role from roles/web/tasks/main.yml
to roles/web/meta/main.yml
and that works, but it is executed before the Various things that work
and I need it to be executed after. How to accomplish that?
Note that I wrote nbextension, however the same problem happen with similar other roles from the galaxy.
EDIT: Note also that the extension is correctly installed and can be used from a standalone, single-file playbook such as
---
- name: Example
hosts: all
become: yes
roles:
- { role: davidedelvento.nbextension, name: foo, state: present}
however I need it to "integrate" in the larger project described above for the "web" role (I have more roles that I'm not showing)
EDIT2: note that the galaxy ansible role used for this question has been renamed to jupyterextension but as I said the issue (and solution) is the same for any role
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