when roles are skipped it does not produce a 'no hosts matched' message, that is probably related to your -l somehost

@theraser this doesn't appear to be related to tags at all, based on the output above (and my testing shows this works fine with tags). Rather, this appears to be a result of your -l somehost limit, so that you're filtering out all hosts.

Could you please share the inventory your using in this example, or some other inventory which reproduces the behavior?

Thanks four your fast reply :-)

This indeed looks strange. When using Ansible 1.94 with exact same invocation role1, role2 [...] are executed just as expected. When Ansible development version is used I get this "skipping: no hosts matched" as you can see at top.

However I think I found the issue at my tags (syntax):
Writing something like this will work only with older Ansible versions: tags: tag1,tag2,tag3. This won't be recognized with newer versions, where you have to use the correct syntax like

tags:
  - tag1
  - tag2
  - tag3

That's why it skipped every role...

Sometimes it's that easy, sorry for wasting your time

Hrm, that's odd, that should be split up correctly.

I am not sure if the fact that it worked with the old version was a bug or a feature. I just rewrote my playbooks and this works now. If you need any further information please let me know, then I would try to post a complete setup

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