Wait for service restart

[Mehdi Khlifi]

Hey guys,

Is there a way to restart a service and wait for it to finish?
I'm starting Keepalived using the service module and apparently it takes a few seconds to actually start after installation so it's throwing me an error.


- name: "Start Keepalived"
  service:
       name: keepalived
       state: start

[Brian Coca]

You can use the 'wait_for' module, just need a condition that verifies
the service is up, sadly most 'service managers' report the success of
'startup command' and not that the service is actually up.

Alternatively you can use service_facts to check for the service
status in an until loop that wait for it's success (assuming service
manager reports correct status).


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Brian Coca