Iterating through hosts until a successful response is received

[Pete Ahearn]

Hi everyone:

I'm new to Ansible and am hoping there's an easy answer for this. I have a playbook which needs to iterate through a list of IP addresses POSTing a request to each via the uri module, but *only until* the first successful response is received. Once a 200 is returned I don't want it to continue. I've done the following but it hits all three endpoints even if the second one returns 200:

---

- hosts: 192.168.1.2

  vars:

    my_addrs:

      - "192.168.1.100"

      - "localhost"

      - "192.168.1.2"

  become: yes

  become_method: sudo

  tasks:

    - name: Query addresses until success

      with_items: my_addrs

      uri:

        register: uri_resp

        until: uri_resp.status == 200

        retries: 5

        url: "http://{{ item }}/_showSomething"

        method: POST

        body: "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"

        body_format: json

        HEADER_Content-Type: "application/json"

...here I'm trying to iterate using "with_items", and trying to break using "until", but I haven't found an example of using these two together (let alone with the uri module), so I'm wondering what the right way of doing this is.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

-p