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tower_job_wait - Wait for Ansible Tower job to finish.

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
job_id
 yes
ID of the job to monitor.
max_interval
 no 30
Maximum interval in seconds, to request an update from Tower.
min_interval
 no 1
Minimum interval in seconds, to request an update from Tower.
timeout
 no
Maximum time in seconds to wait for a job to finish.
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: Launch a job
  tower_job_launch:
    job_template: "My Job Template"
    register: job
- name: Wait for job max 120s
  tower_job_wait:
    job_id: job.id
    timeout: 120

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
started
timestamp of when the job started running
 success string 2017-03-01T17:03:53.200234Z
status
current status of job
 success string successful
finished
timestamp of when the job finished running
 success string 2017-03-01T17:04:04.078782Z
id
job id that is being waited on
 success int 99
elapsed
total time in seconds the job took to run
 success float 10.879

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_wait_module.html