community.general.runit module – Manage runit services

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.runit.

Synopsis

  • Controls runit services on remote hosts using the sv utility.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

enabled

boolean

Whether the service is enabled or not, if disabled it also implies stopped.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

name

string / required

Name of the service to manage.

service_dir

string

directory runsv watches for services

Default: "/var/service"

service_src

string

directory where services are defined, the source of symlinks to service_dir.

Default: "/etc/sv"

state

string

started/stopped are idempotent actions that will not run commands unless necessary. restarted will always bounce the service (sv restart) and killed will always bounce the service (sv force-stop). reloaded will send a HUP (sv reload). once will run a normally downed sv once (sv once), not really an idempotent operation.

Choices:

  • "killed"

  • "once"

  • "reloaded"

  • "restarted"

  • "started"

  • "stopped"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Start sv dnscache, if not running
  community.general.runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: started

- name: Stop sv dnscache, if running
  community.general.runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: stopped

- name: Kill sv dnscache, in all cases
  community.general.runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: killed

- name: Restart sv dnscache, in all cases
  community.general.runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: restarted

- name: Reload sv dnscache, in all cases
  community.general.runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded

- name: Use alternative sv directory location
  community.general.runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded
    service_dir: /run/service

Authors

  • James Sumners (@jsumners)