Conditionally loop over multiple ansible tasks

main.yml

---
- name: test
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Invoke poller
    vars:
      url: http://localhost:8000/abc.json
      validate_certs: yes
      poll_interval: 10
      poll_condition: '"failed" not in response.content and response.json.status=="running"'
      fail_condition: '"failed" in response.content'
      max_poll_attempts: 5
      display_debug_msg_for_each_attempt: yes
      json_query_to_build_debug_msg: "tasks[?status=='running'] | [0].name"
      debug_msg_prefix: 'Prefix:'
      debug_msg_suffix: ''
    include_tasks: status-poller.yml

status-poller.yml

---
- set_fact:
    attempts: "{{ attempts | default(0) | int + 1 }}"

- fail: msg="Number of attempts exceeded {{ max_poll_attempts }}"
  when: (attempts | int) > (max_poll_attempts | int)

- debug:
    msg: "Attempt: {{ attempts }}/{{ max_poll_attempts }}"

- pause:
    seconds: "{{ poll_interval }}"
  no_log: true

- name: Fetch status afresh
  no_log: true
  uri:
    url: "{{ url }}"
    return_content: yes
    validate_certs: "{{ validate_certs }}"
  register: response
  failed_when: fail_condition

- debug:
    msg: "{{ debug_msg_prefix | default('') }}{{ response.json | json_query(json_query_to_build_debug_msg) }}{{ debug_msg_suffix | default('') }}"
  when: display_debug_msg_for_each_attempt | bool and json_query_to_build_debug_msg is defined

- include_tasks: includes/status-poller.yml
  when: poll_condition

Effectively, this is equivalent of using retries and delay on the uri module. Only if there were a way to set the retry_msg (defaulting to task name and number of retries), the same could be achieved.

However, the gist may help anyone specifically looking for running multiple tasks.

The include command is not working as expected. I have a main.yml file i want to get the list of files from the directory and pass the file name to another playbook.

The include command is not working as expected. I have a main.yml file i want to get the list of files from the directory and pass the file name to another playbook.

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