Sometimes we need to wait some time before we can let our Ansible process to continue.
This playbook will show the current time on the server. Wait 3 second and then show the time again.
---
- hosts: all
tasks:
- name: check date
command: date
register: out
- debug: msg={{out.stdout}}
- pause: seconds=3
- name: check date
command: date
register: out
- debug: msg={{out.stdout}}
The output looks like this:
i$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.cfg --limit 192.168.56.11 -b sleep.yml
PLAY [all] ****************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.11]
TASK [check date] *********************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.56.11]
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.11] => {
"msg": "Sun Mar 18 18:35:59 IST 2018"
}
TASK [pause] **************************************************************************************************************************
Pausing for 3 seconds
(ctrl+C then 'C' = continue early, ctrl+C then 'A' = abort)
ok: [192.168.56.11]
TASK [check date] *********************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.56.11]
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.11] => {
"msg": "Sun Mar 18 18:36:02 IST 2018"
}
PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************************************************
192.168.56.11 : ok=6 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0
Read more about pause.
