I have tried googling but have failed.
We use ansible to upgrade a fleet of VMs. Some of them are fairly small and apt in particular seems to really bog them down (yum/dnf isn’t that bad)
if we ssh in to the target we can run apt with nice/ionice
i.e.
sudo ionice -n 7 nice -n 19 apt-get dist-upgrade
which does the job of not completely disrupting the VM functionality.
However, I would prefer to continue to use the apt module within a playbook with Poll: 0 and monitor from within Ansible.
So is there to way to pass on nice/ionice within a module? I suppose I could use shell and a wrapper but I'd like to do it in the "ansible" way if possible.
Sincerely,
-wk