Sometimes it is required to reboot a Linux server after certain tasks. If you’re using Ansible as the tool to automate your server management, you can write a small role in Ansible to trigger a quick reboot, wait for the server to come back to life and continue with other tasks.<\/p>\n
The following script works in Ansible 2.1; tested in Ubuntu 14.04 and RHEL 6<\/p>\n
- name: Restart server\r\n become: yes\r\n shell: sleep 2 && \/sbin\/shutdown -r now \"System package upgraded\"\r\n\r\n- name: waiting 30 secs for server to come back\r\n local_action: wait_for host={{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }} port=22 state=started delay=30 timeout=60\r\n become: false<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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