reboot

The purpose of this role is to reboot your system.

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/resources/playbook.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - robertdebock.reboot

The machine you are running this on, may need to be prepared, I use this playbook to ensure everything is in place to let the role work.

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  become: yes

  roles:
    - robertdebock.bootstrap

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for reboot

# Some operating systems can determine if a reboot is required. This
# parameter can be set to always reboot.
reboot_always: no

# How long to wait before sending a reboot.
reboot_delay: 4

# Number of seconds to wait before checking if the machine is up.
reboot_up_delay: 8

# You can specify a message for rebooting, easier for auditing.
reboot_message: "Ansible role robertdebock.reboot initiated a reboot."

Requirements

• Access to a repository containing packages, likely on the internet.
• A recent version of Ansible. (Tests run on the current, previous and next release of Ansible.)

The following roles can be installed to ensure all requirements are met, using ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml:

---
- robertdebock.bootstrap

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

This role has been tested on these Ansible versions:

• ansible>=2.8, <2.9
• ansible>=2.9
• git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel

Exceptions

Some variarations of the build matrix do not work. These are the variations and reasons why the build won't work:

Testing

Unit tests are done on every commit, pull request, release and periodically.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

Testing is done using Tox and Molecule:

Tox tests multiple ansible versions. Molecule tests multiple distributions.

To test using the defaults (any installed ansible version, namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest):

molecule test

# Or select a specific image:
image=ubuntu molecule test
# Or select a specific image and a specific tag:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

Or you can test multiple versions of Ansible, and select images: Tox allows multiple versions of Ansible to be tested. To run the default (namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest) tests:

tox

# To run CentOS (namespace: `robertdebock`, tag: `latest`)
image="centos" tox
# Or customize more:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

Modules

This role uses the following modules:

---
- command
- meta
- package
- pause
- setup
- shell
- stat
- wait_for_connection

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock