If you are within the context of a CI/CD tool, you may run into the scenario where a newly applied git tag has initiated a pipeline action. Depending on the tool, the pipeline will provide you with either a SHA of the last commit and/or the tag name – but not the branch where the … Git: find branch name of newly applied tag
Even if the actions in your playbook/role are tagged to separate their logic, this ability to selectively execute will not operate properly when called without any tags because then you will fallback to the special ‘all‘ behavior. Consider a playbook with the following actions. tasks: – debug: msg=”when tag ‘run'” tags: run – debug: msg=”when … Ansible: action only executed if tag set, avoiding ‘all’ behavior
It is not uncommon to find an installation page where you are asked to download a packaged release from the github site. But even if you are using the “latest” alias to grab the most recent, you may still need to know the exact release tag for unzipping, configuration management, etc. Luckily, a simple query … Bash: Determining latest github release tag and version