how to wait for a windows machine to come up after rebooting?

[Sharwari Phadnis]

I am trying to reboot a windows machine and I want to wait for it come up. I tried the following playbook:

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- hosts: windows
  tasks:
     - name: Reboot windows
       raw: shutdown /r /f
   
     - name: ping windows machine until it comes up
       action: win_ping
       register: result
       until: result.rc == 0
       retries: 30
       delay: 20
 
But, it is not working somehow. Is there any other way I can reboot the windows 10 machine and wait for it come up ?

[J Hawkesworth]

There is a win_reboot role on Galaxy which will do this for you.

Also there is a Pull Request (not yet merged) for a win_reboot action here https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/15314

If you can help out with testing the reboot action that would make it more likely to get included in the next release of Ansible.

Hope this helps,

Jon