Then refer to it from a task with notify: Restart conditionally.
Note that you can only notify to handlers below the current one. So for example, Restart conditionally step 2 can't notify Restart conditionally.
Source: #ansible at irc.freenode.net. I'm unsure whether this will continue to work in the future as it's not mentioned as a feature in the official documentation.
Edit:If you have Ansible 2.2 or above, use mkadan's answer. The answer below does not work with newer versions of Ansible. Also note that as per Enis Afgan's comment below, due to a bug, this answer does not work with Ansible versions between 2.0.2 and 2.1.2.
As of Ansible 2.0, you can use an include action in your handler to run multiple tasks.
For example, put your tasks in a separate file restart_tasks.yml (if you use roles, that would go into the tasks subdirectory, not in the handlers subdirectory):
There is proper solution to this problem as of Ansible 2.2.
handlers can also “listen” to generic topics, and tasks can notify those topics as follows:
handlers:
- name: restart memcached
service: name=memcached state=restarted
listen: "restart web services"
- name: restart apache
service: name=apache state=restarted
listen: "restart web services"
tasks:
- name: restart everything
command: echo "this task will restart the web services"
notify: "restart web services"
This use makes it much easier to trigger multiple handlers. It also decouples handlers from their names, making it easier to share handlers among playbooks and roles
Specifically to the question, this should work:
- name: Check if restarted
shell: check_is_started.sh
register: result
listen: Restart processes
- name: Restart conditionally step 2
service: name=service state=restarted
when: result
listen: Restart processes
and in the task, notify handlers via 'Restart processes'