How to create a nicer pause...

[Krist van Besien]

Hi all,

In one of my playbooks I need to build in a fairly long pause.

So I have this task:

- name: Pause for 20 minutes
  pause: minutes=20

This works, but has the disadvantage that for 20 minutes nothing appears to happen on the screen. I would like to give a bit of feedback. Like a message "still waiting, x minutes to go" every 30 seconds or so. What would be the best way to do this?

Krist

[Kai Stian Olstad]

It's not pretty, but it gives a feedback every 30 seconds.

- name: Pause
pause:
seconds=30
with_sequence: start=40 end=0 stride=-1

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Krist van Besien]

That works. But this is indeed not that pretty. Is there a way to get rid of the prompt?

I think I might in stead create a loop that just executes "sleep 30"...

Krist

[Kai Stian Olstad]

No.

> I think I might in stead create a loop that just executes "sleep 30"...

This is a solution that looks nice, the downside is it does 40 includes
and creates 40 dummy tasks.


pause.yml
---
- name: "{{ item | int / 2 }} minutes left"
command: sleep 30
changed_when: false


In the playbook:

- include: pause.yml
with_sequence: start=40 end=1 stride=-1


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Kai Stian Olstad

[Josh Smift]

How about wait_for?

- name: count down forty 30-second intervals
wait_for: timeout=30
with_sequence: start=40 end=0 stride=-1

That gives me output like this:

TASK [count down forty 30-second intervals]
*************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=40)
ok: [localhost] => (item=39)

etc.

-Josh (j...@care.com)

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