# Pause and Resume Ansible Playbooks without editing the YAML playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/pause-and-resume-ansible-playbooks-without-editing-the-yaml-playbook/27111>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [March 26, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pause-and-resume-ansible-playbooks-without-editing-the-yaml-playbook/27111 "2018-03-26T06:50:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Akash\_Agarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Akash\_Agarwal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akash_Agarwal)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pause-and-resume-ansible-playbooks-without-editing-the-yaml-playbook/27111/1 "2018-03-26T06:50:16Z")

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Hi All,

Our team have been trying to develop some GUI for the ansible execution and I wanted to know if there is some way to pause and resume the execution of the playbook midway with just command line argument. I am familiar with the Pause option but that needs to be added in the YAML, we don’t want that. I am also familiar with the --step argument passed on the CLI, that’s close to what we want but not specifically.

Thanks,  
Akash

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pause-and-resume-ansible-playbooks-without-editing-the-yaml-playbook/27111/2 "2018-03-27T11:08:59Z")

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Closest thing I can think of is playbook debugger functionality described here:

[http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user\_guide/playbooks\_debugger.html](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_debugger.html)