Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Delegating a task

Sometimes you want to execute an action on a different system. This could be, for instance, a database node while you are deploying something on an application server node or to the local host. To do so, you can just add the 'delegate_to: HOST' property to your task and it will be run on the proper node. Let's rework the previous example to achieve this:

    ---     - hosts: database      remote_user: ansible      tasks:      - name: Count processes running on the remote system      shell: ps | wc -l      register: remote_processes_number      - name: Print remote running processes      debug:      msg: '{{ remote_processes_number.stdout }}'      - name: Count processes running on the local system      shell: ps | wc -l      delegate_to: ...