ansible: handlers are skipped when playbook runs with tags

Question

I have a playbook that I run tags "configure" and new configuration gets copied and I see the changed status in the playbook logs but finally handlers are skipped so my new configuration is not loaded

playbook log

TASK [my-server : Validate and copy config] ********
changed: [server101] => (item=/home/myitem.conf)

RUNNING HANDLER [my-server : reload service] **************
skipping: [server101]

here is my task

main.yml

- include: configure.yml
  become: true
  tags:
    - configure

handler

- name: reload service
  become: true
  supervisorctl:
    name: xxxx
    state: restarted
  listen: "reload service"
  when: xxx == "true"

task in configure.yml:

- name: Validate and copy config
  copy:
    src: "{{ item }}"
    dest: "{{ config_dir }}"
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0640
    validate: "/xxx/xxx/tool check %s"
  with_fileglob:
    - /tmp/configs/*.config
  notify:
    - reload service

where I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I am assuming you obfuscated your task? There are no tags on that either? So that shouldn't be running. But lets assuming it is running, and you had just removed the tags as part of your obfuscation.

I would be tempted to either add the 'configure' tag to your handlers, or perhaps the 'always' tag.