azure.yml

---

- hosts: all
  become: true
  # Gathering facts must be disable on the playbook and run manually after the
  # VMs was powered on. This to avoid marking the VM immediately as "not
  # reachable" and skipped in all other tasks.
  gather_facts: false

  tasks:
    # This task must be run only once, and the role will perform its tasks on
    # localhost, so we can run the power on tasks also on an inventory of
    # powered off VMs
    - name: "Power on Azure VMs"
      include_role:
        name: azure
        tasks_from: power
      vars:
        vm_list: "{{ groups['base'] }}"
        status: on
      when:
        - azure_vm_keep_running is defined
      run_once: true

    # After the VMs was powered on, we can gather facts from hosts
    - name: "Gathering host facts"
      gather_facts:

    # Here we start the "normal" playbook operations
    - name: "Import base variables"
      include_vars: base.yaml

    - import_role:
        name: my-first-role

    - import_role:
        name: my-second-role

    # Then we can proceed to power off all the VMs. This task also need to be
    # run only once, and it will performed on localhost

    - name: "Power off Azure VMs"
      include_role:
        name: azure
        tasks_from: power
      vars:
        vm_list: "{{ groups['base'] }}"
        status: off
      when:
        - azure_vm_keep_running is defined
      run_once: true