Ansible-playbook: directly run handler

Question

Is there a way to directly run handler by ansible-playbook?

For example, i have handler restart service in my role and sometimes i want just trigger it directly without deploying whole app.

Answer 1

There are a number of options answered in a similar post on ServerFault. In summary:

Options for triggering a particular handler:

• Use a no-op command to trigger it
• Use a debug with changed_when: true to trigger it

Options for triggering all handlers:

• Run with --force-handlers
• Use a meta: flush_handlers task

Options for re-architecting:

• Use a task instead