ansible.builtin.linear strategy – Executes tasks in a linear fashion

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 linear. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.linear 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 in lockstep per host batch as defined by serial (default all). Up to the fork limit of hosts will execute each task at the same time and then the next series of hosts until the batch is done, before going on to the next task.

Notes

Note

  • This was the default Ansible behaviour before ‘strategy plugins’ were introduced in 2.0.

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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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/linear_strategy.html