Reboot and Wait

This is an Ansible role designed to reboot Linux systems that use systemd for managing services.

By using this role, you can prevent errors like:

fatal: [10.0.15.50]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Shared connection to 10.0.15.50 closed.\r\n", "unreachable": true}

Requirements

No special requirements for this role.

Role Variables

• reboot_delay: Number of seconds to wait before rebooting.

  reboot_delay = 10
  

• return_port: Port to check for server availability.

  return_port = 22
  

• return_delay: Time in seconds to wait before the first connection attempt.

  return_delay = 40
  

• return_timeout: Time in seconds for how long connection attempts will be made.

  return_timeout = 300
  

• return_connect_timeout: Time in seconds for how long the connection probe will keep trying.

  return_connect_timeout = 20
  

The variables that start with 'return_' are used by the wait_for Ansible module. Please refer to the module's documentation for more details.

Dependencies

No external dependencies are needed for this role.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: it-praktyk.reboot-and-wait }

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Wojciech Sciesinski
This role is licensed under The MIT License (MIT)
Full license text: MIT License

Author Information

• Author: Wojciech Sciesinski, wojciech[at]sciesinski[dot]net
• Keywords: Ansible, systemd, reboot
• Credits: Thanks to Marcin Skarbek for the answer on Stack Overflow

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