ansible.builtin.free strategy – Executes tasks without waiting for all hosts

Note

This strategy plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name free. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.free for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same strategy plugin name.

Synopsis

  • Task execution is as fast as possible per batch as defined by serial (default all). Ansible will not wait for other hosts to finish the current task before queuing more tasks for other hosts. All hosts are still attempted for the current task, but it prevents blocking new tasks for hosts that have already finished.
  • With the free strategy, unlike the default linear strategy, a host that is slow or stuck on a specific task won’t hold up the rest of the hosts and tasks.

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/free_strategy.html