Systemd service status check

[Narmada Karthika]

I am trying to run my playbook to check/restart/stop kestrel service on given node. I am able to ping that node using ansible but when running the task its is failing with connection timeout error. 

here is the playbook

---

- name: check kestrel service

  hosts: lin_dev

  become: true

  gather_facts: no

  vars:

    kestrelservicename: kestrel-api.service

   

  tasks:

    - name: check status of kestrel service

      ansible.builtin.service:

        name: "{{ kestrelservicename }}"

        state: started

        enabled: no

      become_user: root

      timeout: 300

error is

"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"}, "changed": false, "msg": "Unable to disable service kestrel-api.service: Failed to execute operation: Connection timed out\n"}

["Kosala Atapattu (කෝසල අතපත්තු)"]

Just wonder whether you can disable that service manually in 5 mins?

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On 31/05/2023, at 10:07 AM, Narmada Karthika <chitt...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to run my playbook to check/restart/stop kestrel service on given node. I am able to ping that node using ansible but when running the task its is failing with connection timeout error. 

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[Narmada Karthika]

yea, I tried that option just to check if its timing out before it is disabling

btw, I got it fixed I changed the user: root at the top level instead of play level 

[Narmada Karthika]

But I had one more question here, can I delete the kestrel service using ansible??

On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 3:13:40 PM UTC-7 "Kosala Atapattu (කෝසල අතපත්තු)" wrote:

["Kosala Atapattu (කෝසල අතපත්තු)"]

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On 31/05/2023, at 10:20 AM, Narmada Karthika <chitt...@gmail.com> wrote:

yea, I tried that option just to check if its timing out before it is disabling

btw, I got it fixed I changed the user: root at the top level instead of play level 

Aha, you can also opt to become root in task level, with sudo as well. 

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[Narmada Karthika]

Right, I had it in the task level, some how it did not work.

[Kosala Atapattu]

Just wonder whether the user you initially ran on had sudo access...

Kosala

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[Narmada Karthika]

it has.. 

coming to my other question, can I delete a service on linux using ansible..

[Kosala Atapattu]

Don't believe you can from systemctl commands, but just like we create service definitions, we can delete them as well. I'm thinking:

1. Stop the service, and disable

2. Track down the service definition file, delete it

3. Perform a systemctl daemon-reload... might have to do this as a command.

But, why delete? DIsable is not good enough?

Kosala

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[Narmada Karthika]

There are applications migrating from vms to k8s, so we don't need to have service kept disabled on old systems, may cause confusion and maintenance.

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 Thanks,

Narmada Karthika Chitturi

 

[Narmada Karthika]

btw, i got this working .. thought it would be helpful for someone, so posting it..

---

- name: Delete kestrel service

  hosts: lin_dev

  become: true

  user: root

  gather_facts: no

  vars:

    kestrelservicename: kestrel-api.service

   

  tasks:

    - name: Delete kestrel service

      ansible.builtin.systemd:

        name: "{{ kestrelservicename }}"

        daemon_reload: true  

       

    - name: Remove directory content

      become: yes

      file:

        path: "/etc/systemd/system/{{ kestrelservicename }}"

        state: absent