How to create a nicer pause...

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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

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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

3

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

4

> 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?

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

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

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

5

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]