How can I detect if an Ansible playbook is executed by ansible-pull rather than ansible-playbook?

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I am looking for a when condition which is fullfilled when the playbook is executed by ansible-pull.

I'm affraid you can't since ansible-pull actually runs ansible-playbook internally with no particular option once SCM checkout is done (run with -vvv to see the steps). If you use a specific directory on all your servers to clone your playbook repos from ansible-pull, you can eventually set a condition on the playbook_dir variable. This is way far from bulletproof though. — Zeitounator, Commented Aug 14, 2021 at 21:12

Steffen Vogel · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-23 09:46:36Z

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I found two approaches to test if a playbook is applied via ansible-pull:

Check for ansible_connection == "local". However this doesnt work in all places as local connections might also used regularily by your playbook.
Pass an extra variable to the invocation: ansible-pull --extra-vars "ansible_pull=true"

answered Aug 23, 2021 at 9:46

Steffen Vogel

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