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tower_job_cancel - Cancel an Ansible Tower Job.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • python >= 2.6
  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2

Options

parameter required default choices comments
fail_if_not_running
no
Fail loudly if the job_id does not reference a running job.
job_id
yes
ID of the job to cancel
tower_config_file
no
Path to the Tower config file. See notes.
tower_host
no
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
no
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
no
Username for your Tower instance.
tower_verify_ssl
no True
Dis/allow insecure connections to Tower. If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Cancel job
  tower_job_cancel:
    job_id: job.id

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
status
status of the cancel request
success string canceled
id
job id requesting to cancel
success int 94

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/tower_job_cancel_module.html