Need suggestion on the ansible playbook to monitor task using rest api on the redhat satellite server v6.13

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I appreciate your advise on ansible playbook mention below i am using Redhat satellite server [GET /foreman_tasks/api/tasks] api to extract the running tasks l and then mapping the task related to publishing with key value “result”. I need to check this task until the running task result from status pending to success.
I m able to retrieve task and also specific task result value but how to loop this task until the result changes from status pending to success?
using ansible v 2.9

- name: Retrieve tasks and find the state of the task

  • name: Retrieve all the tasks
    ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: “https://{{ satellite_name }}/foreman_tasks/api/tasks”
    user: “{{ sat_user }}”
    password: “{{ sat_token }}”
    force_basic_auth: true
    method: GET
    register: tasks
  • name: Set fact to the publish task state
    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    result: “{{ tasks.json.results | selectattr (‘label’, ‘==’,‘Actions::Katello::ContentView::Publish’) | map (attribute= ‘result’) | first }}”

Print taskid from the list

  • name: “Print task state”
    ansible.builtin.debug:
    var: result

I appreciate if any one us give me suggestion as i m struck and unable to proceed further

Thanks
Deepak B Kumar

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Loops — Ansible Community Documentation Ansible allows you to continue looping until a condition is met via the until: parameter.

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Thank you for reply . But I confused should i use until: loop at the set_fact task or at rest api tasks ? if i use under set_fact task its only looping set_fact and it does retry thrice and the result still would be in status “pending” its fails .
If i use at the rest api uri module it breaks as it cant find result variable value.

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You would use “until” on the rest API call and check for whatever you want to happen under the registered variable you have, which you seem to have named “tasks”. I don’t have foreman or satellite so I can’t duplicate exactly what you’re expecting to see, but somewhere under the tasks registered variable would be the condition you’d look for.

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I appreciate the suggestion you provided me I was able to loop using until. Now the task looks like

  • name: Get Publish task status until success
    ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: “https://{{ satellite_name }}/foreman_tasks/api/tasks/{{ task_id }}”
    method: GET
    user: “{{ sat_user }}”
    password: “{{ sat_token }}”
    force_basic_auth: true
    validate_certs: false
    register: task_status
    until: task_status.json.result == “success”
    retries: 20
    delay: 50

Thanks !
Deepak