Executing only selcted roles when provisioning a Vagrant box

[luqo33]

Hello,

In trellis, the local Vagrant box is provisioned with vagrant up --provision. Then dev.yml playbook is read and executed.

Is it possible to pass only selected tags to vagrant up --provision so that I can run only one or two roles and not the whole playbook?

I just wanted to set up new sites locally, and do not want to re-run the whole dev.yml playbook

Thanks!

[ben]

This has been brought up multiple times on this forum. A quick search brought me to this post:

Running single ansible tasks in development

As you discovered, vagrant reload doesn’t necessarily run the provisioning, which was needed to apply the your changes to caching. I believe vagrant provision would have been sufficient, without the need to reload. As you discovered, tags allow you to run portions of your playbook. The nginx tag is assigned to the entire nginx role, so adding the -t nginx option would run all the tasks in that role. As an aside, Ansible also makes it possible to add tags to individual tasks, for even more prec…