Separate deploy and delete plays in different playbooks.

README.md

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-# deploy then delete:
+# deploy:
 $ SECRETS_ARCHIVE_PASSPHRASE=XXXXXX ansible-playbook -e target_name=host.domain -e SECRET_HOST=host2.domain2 deploy_ovh_instance.yml
 
-# only delete:
+# delete:
-$ SECRETS_ARCHIVE_PASSPHRASE=XXXXXX ansible-playbook -e target_name=host.domain -e SECRET_HOST=host2.domain2 -t delete deploy_ovh_instance.yml
+$ SECRETS_ARCHIVE_PASSPHRASE=XXXXXX ansible-playbook -e target_name=host.domain -e SECRET_HOST=host2.domain2 delete_ovh_instance.yml
-
-# deploy and do not delete:
-$ SECRETS_ARCHIVE_PASSPHRASE=XXXXXX ansible-playbook -e target_name=host.domain -e SECRET_HOST=host2.domain2 -e delete=False deploy_ovh_instance.yml
 
 library directory contains Ansible modules from https://github.com/gheesh/ansible-ovh-dns
 

delete_ovh_instance.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+- name: delete OVH instance
+  hosts: localhost
+  connection: local
+  vars_files:
+    - vars/main.yml
+  tasks:
+    - name: Retrieve secrets
+      ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "tasks/retrieve_secret_vars.yml"
+
+    - name: Include OVH application credentials
+      ansible.builtin.include_vars: "{{ remote_workdir }}/OVH_APPLICATION.yml"
+
+    - name: include role_delete_openstack_instance
+      ansible.builtin.include_role:
+        name: role_delete_openstack_instance

deploy_ovh_instance.yml

@@ -171,23 +171,3 @@
         apply:
           tags: deploy_openvpn-server
       tags: deploy_openvpn-server
-
-- name: delete OVH instance
-  hosts: localhost
-  connection: local 
-  tags: delete
-  vars_files:
-    - vars/main.yml
-  tasks:
-    - name: Retrieve secrets
-      ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "tasks/retrieve_secret_vars.yml"
-      when: delete | default(True) | bool
-
-    - name: Include OVH application credentials
-      ansible.builtin.include_vars: "{{ remote_workdir }}/OVH_APPLICATION.yml"
-      when: delete | default(True) | bool
-
-    - name: include role_delete_openstack_instance
-      ansible.builtin.include_role:
-        name: role_delete_openstack_instance
-      when: delete | default(True) | bool