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Re:Red Hat is buying Ansible by crdoconnor on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:35AM (#10399116)
It shouldn't unless you're very careless. A tag that just updates all of the settings files and restarts the services should have the same effect as the full playbook run.
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Re:Red Hat is buying Ansible by falcolas on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:11AM (#10399373)
And if you add a new machine to the cluster, which hasn't gotten all tags run against it? Or of a machine was temporarily offline when a tag was run, or...

There are many potential situations where not running a full inventory against a running machine results in a machine not being properly configured.

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Re:Red Hat is buying Ansible by crdoconnor on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:53AM (#10399700)
>And if you add a new machine to the cluster

Then you'll probably be running the whole playbook again, including those settings changes you made before.

>Or of a machine was temporarily offline when a tag was run

Then it'll fail and give you a warning. Shrug your shoulders and run it again?

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