Prompt question again. Thanks

[Tiglath]

 

Between my lack of Ansible mastery and its kind of syntax, rare is the day I don't get stuck... 

 

Either the syntax is not intuitive or I have no intuition. 

 

I am trying to do something very simple and it seems very complicated in Ansible.  I hope it just seems so. 

 

I  figure out what release to deploy in a play and then confirm the release is correct, if not all stops, if correct run with the wind...

 

So:

 

If I put vars_prompt between the tasks it gives an error.   Where can the prompt go then?    When is code position indicative of order of execution and when not? 

 

---

hosts: appserver

tasks:

- name: Get the latest release.

   local_action: shell grep XXX  /tmp/releases | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d "," | tr -d "'"

   register: rel

--->>><  "Deploying release {{ rel.stdout }} Correct?  (y/n): "  > prompt goes here  <<< ----  

- name: Remove old installation files.

  script: /tmp/clean.sh "{{ rel.stdout }}"

- name: Run local build.

  local_action: shell /tmp/build.py "{{ inventory_hostname }}" "{{ rel.stdout }}"

- name: Run deploy.py on target.

script: /export/home/jsuriol/deploy/migration/apps/TV2G/tools/deploy.py "{{ rel.stdout }}"

Thank you for your patience with neophites... 

 

 

[Michael Peters]

vars_prompt goes on the play level, not the task level. It's not a
task and you don't have control over when the prompt happens. It will
ask you before the play starts to answer any questions in the prompt.

Just a helpful way to think about what can go in the task list: Is it
a module? (
http://docs.ansible.com/list_of_all_modules.html). If not, then it
can't be a task.

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[Tiglath]

Good rule.  Thanks

[Brian Coca]

Look at the pause module for this functionality

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[Michael Peters]

I could be wrong, but from my understanding the pause module won't
take input. It will give a prompt, but that just waits for enter to be
pressed right?

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[Brian Coca]

You can give input which is available through registered variables