Additional conditions for tasks inside a block

Question

I\'m trying to enclose tasks in the block with some when condition. Also some tasks inside this block have additional conditions. The problem is such tasks (with additional cond

Answer 1

You should fix the indentation of the when declarations.

Maybe it's not just possible in Ansible 2.4 to have enclosed tasks with additional conditions?

Ansible 2.4 works ok:

tasks:
  - block:

    - debug:
        msg: "task 1"

    - debug:
        msg: "task 2"
      when: false

    - debug:
        msg: "task 3"
      when: true

    when: true

results in:

TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "task 1"
}

TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************************
skipping: [localhost]

TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": "task 3"
}

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And you can always reorder the keys in block task for clarity:

tasks:
  - when: true
    block:
      - debug: