Why doesn't this task to check when a server has booted work?

[RobertF]

I have an Ansible playbook for creating [Linode](https://linode.com) servers.  The problem I'm having is that my playbook isn't able to determine when the new server is up.  I'm using Ansible 2.8.4.  My playbook is as follows:

    ---

    hosts: 127.0.0.1

    gather_facts: False

    - name: create server

      linode_v4:

        label: "{{ host_name }}_{{ 100 | random }}"

        access_token: "{{ linode_api4_key }}"

        type: "{{ plan_1GB }}"

        region: "{{ region_us_central }}"

        image: "{{ image_debian_10 }}"

        root_pass: "{{ linode_root_password }}"

        authorized_keys: "{{ my_ssh_public_key }}"

        tags: "inventory.ini"

        state: present

      register: linode

    - name: save new server's ip address to a fact

      set_fact: ip_addr={{ linode.instance.ipv4 }}

      tags: always

    - debug:

        var: ip_addr

    - name: wait until new server is up

      wait_for:

        state: started

        host: "{{ ip_addr }}"

        port: 22

        delay: 2

        timeout: 600

        msg: "Server port is not listening"

      tags: always

I also tried it this way:

    - name: wait until new server is up

      local_action:

        module: wait_for

        state: started

        host: "{{ ip_addr }}"

        port: 22

        delay: 1

        timeout: 100

I've tried doing it using a wait_for and also via local_action but neither one is working.  The playbook never returns from the wait for task.  I monitor my Linode dashboard as the playbook runs and I can see that that IP address I'm feeding to the task via "ip_addr" is correct and the dashboard also shows me when the server is up.  Can anyone see what I doing wrong?  Thanks!

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Hi,

You should probably use "wait_for_connection" module instead of the one
you use

This is how I use it :

- hosts: newly_managed_vms
  become: yes
  become_user: root
  remote_user: ansible
  gather_facts: no   # servers could be not available yet
  tasks:

  - name: "Wait for server to power up"
    wait_for_connection:
      sleep: 5
      timeout: 600

  - name: "Gather facts for first time"
    setup:

Regards,

JYL

[RobertF]

Thanks Jean-Yves!