ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection module – Waits until remote system is reachable/usable

Note

This module is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short module name wait_for_connection even without specifying the collections keyword. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.

Synopsis

  • Waits for a total of timeout seconds.

  • Retries the transport connection after a timeout of connect_timeout.

  • Tests the transport connection every sleep seconds.

  • This module makes use of internal ansible transport (and configuration) and the ansible.builtin.ping/ansible.windows.win_ping modules to guarantee correct end-to-end functioning.

  • This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

connect_timeout

integer

Maximum number of seconds to wait for a connection to happen before closing and retrying.

Default: 5

delay

integer

Number of seconds to wait before starting to poll.

Default: 0

sleep

integer

Number of seconds to sleep between checks.

Default: 1

timeout

integer

Maximum number of seconds to wait for.

Default: 600

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

action

Support: full

Indicates this has a corresponding action plugin so some parts of the options can be executed on the controller

async

Support: none

Supports being used with the async keyword

bypass_host_loop

Support: none

Forces a ‘global’ task that does not execute per host, this bypasses per host templating and serial, throttle and other loop considerations

Conditionals will work as if run_once is being used, variables used will be from the first available host

This action will not work normally outside of lockstep strategies

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target, if not supported the action will be skipped.

diff_mode

Support: none

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

platform

Platforms: all

As long as there is a connection plugin

Target OS/families that can be operated against

See Also

See also

ansible.builtin.wait_for

Waits for a condition before continuing.

ansible.windows.win_wait_for

Waits for a condition before continuing.

community.windows.win_wait_for_process

Waits for a process to exist or not exist before continuing.

Examples

- name: Wait 600 seconds for target connection to become reachable/usable
  ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection:

- name: Wait 300 seconds, but only start checking after 60 seconds
  ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection:
    delay: 60
    timeout: 300

# Wake desktops, wait for them to become ready and continue playbook
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Send magic Wake-On-Lan packet to turn on individual systems
    community.general.wakeonlan:
      mac: '{{ mac }}'
      broadcast: 192.168.0.255
    delegate_to: localhost

  - name: Wait for system to become reachable
    ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection:

  - name: Gather facts for first time
    ansible.builtin.setup:

# Build a new VM, wait for it to become ready and continue playbook
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Clone new VM, if missing
    community.vmware.vmware_guest:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_ipaddress }}'
      name: '{{ inventory_hostname_short }}'
      template: Windows 2012R2
      customization:
        hostname: '{{ vm_shortname }}'
        runonce:
        - cmd.exe /c winrm.cmd quickconfig -quiet -force
    delegate_to: localhost

  - name: Wait for system to become reachable over WinRM
    ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection:
      timeout: 900

  - name: Gather facts for first time
    ansible.builtin.setup:

Return Values

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

Key

Description

elapsed

float

The number of seconds that elapsed waiting for the connection to appear.

Returned: always

Sample: 23.1

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)