Rolling Reboot Playbook

The dareko.rolling_reboot playbook performs servers reboot in rolling manner.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 1.4 or higher. Platform requirements are listed in the Supported Platforms section of the role details.

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role with default values are as follows.

# number of seconds to wait before next server reboot
rolling_reboot_pause: 60

# by default wait for ssh daemon after reboot
# listen to a service port that is meaningful in your environment
# thus allowing you to reduce the value for rolling_reboot_pause
rolling_reboot_wait_port: 22

# number of seconds to wait before polling port
# in some environments that can be set rather low (10 seconds or less)
rolling_reboot_wait_delay: 60

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

1. Add a group to the hosts inventory file

2. Add dareko.rolling.reboot role to the rolling_reboot.yml playbook

    - hosts: "{{ rolling_reboot_group }}"
      sudo: true
      serial: 1
      roles:
      - role: dareko.rolling_reboot
   

3. Execute the the playbook

    ansible-playbook -i hosts rolling_reboot.yml -e 'rolling_reboot_group=<your group> \
                                                     rolling_reboot_wait_port=8087 \
                                                     rolling_reboot_wait_delay=10 \
                                                     rolling_reboot_pause=10 '
   

License

MIT License

Author Information

Darek Owczarek