Offline Installation Support about grafana-ansible-collection HOT 5 CLOSED

@gardar any thoughts on this?

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As a second option to this, I would love an example of how one might include this role in another playbook and skip the grafana_install stages. I cannot for the life of me figure out how this is possible.

If invoked with --skip-tags "grafana_install", it also skips all of the preflight,configure,dashboard tasks, etc.
If invoked with the reverse of --tags "grafana_preflight,grafana_configure,grafana_dashboard", it still doesn't run the "include_task" tasks, because those themselves are not tagged - they only tag their included tasks if they are first run.
If invoked in this same way but where I also do an args: apply: tags: grafana_configure, then it will add the "grafana_configure" tag to all included tasks - and run all of them - even the ones I intended to skip.

EDIT: Naturally I would figure it out the second I got frustrated enough to post here. The missing ingredient was "untagged". The command:
ansible-playbook -i inventories/hosts playbooks/my_specific_grafana_install.yml --tags "grafana_preflight,grafana_configure,grafana_datasources,grafana_notifications,grafana_dashboards,untagged"

And in my playbook something like this:

• hosts: server
  collections:
  • grafana.grafana
    tasks:
  • import_role:
    name: grafana.grafana.grafana

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Apologies for the late reply but glad you were able to make it work
Ill see if I can add this an example

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The feature request is still valid. This is an extremely annoying workaround, since it doesn't play nicely with running my playbook from within another playbook (do_site.yml that calls install_grafana, which installs grafana in my own way and then calls the official role). My ansible-playbook command will have to define all tags that I have to use for all roles that I include, otherwise it will silently skip those. It would be much better if Grafana's ansible role simply contained a way to provide your own install / offline support.

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Hey @j-karls, Do you want to raise a PR for your proposed changes?

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