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Kendrick
Kendrick

Reputation: 173

ansible playbook handling long running process

is it possible to handle processes that are long running and may not keep an application running in the cli. for example zfs scrub /tank completes in a few seconds yet the process of the scrub continues in the background. there is a utility called zed that can run a script or other actions when the scrub completes to get the details of the scrub. is there a way that ansible can handle situations like this to receive results and act on them or is this something that a tool like jenkins would be needed

Upvotes: 1

Views: 541

Answers (1)

Steve E.
Steve E.

Reputation: 9353

Use the wait_for module to make Ansible wait for the process to complete.

For example, you could configure the zed utility to create a file when the scrub process completes.

- name: Wait until the file /tmp/scrub-results is present before continuing
  wait_for:
    path: /tmp/scrub-results

The wait_for module can test many other conditions such as the presence of an open port or specific content to appear in a file. It can also watch a specific process ID until it terminates.

It is best to read the documentation to determine which is most suitable for your use case.

Upvotes: 1

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