From 76814089ae213796030debb9a548686122d409ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Miller Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 20:28:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add async fire-forget/check functionality --- docsite/rst/playbooks_async.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ library/internal/async_status | 2 +- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks_async.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks_async.rst index 5a82189b65c..62b5c944a81 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/playbooks_async.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks_async.rst @@ -56,6 +56,28 @@ Alternatively, if you do not need to wait on the task to complete, you may Using a higher value for ``--forks`` will result in kicking off asynchronous tasks even faster. This also increases the efficiency of polling. +If you would like to perform a variation of the "fire and forget" where you +"fire and forget, check on it later" you can perform a task similar to the +following:: + + --- + # Requires ansible 1.7+ + - name: 'YUM - fire and forget task' + yum: name=docker-io state=installed + async: 1000 + poll: 0 + register: yum_sleeper + + - name: 'YUM - check on fire and forget task' + async_status: jid={{ yum_sleeper.ansible_job_id }} + register: job_result + until: job_result.finished + retries: 30 + +.. note:: + If the value of ``async:`` is not high enough, this will cause the + "check on it later" task to fail because the temporary status file that + the ``async_status:`` is looking for will not have been written .. seealso:: diff --git a/library/internal/async_status b/library/internal/async_status index 1605f877a46..f991b50064b 100644 --- a/library/internal/async_status +++ b/library/internal/async_status @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def main(): except Exception, e: if data == '': # file not written yet? That means it is running - module.exit_json(results_file=log_path, ansible_job_id=jid, started=1) + module.exit_json(results_file=log_path, ansible_job_id=jid, started=1, finished=0) else: module.fail_json(ansible_job_id=jid, results_file=log_path, msg="Could not parse job output: %s" % data)