theforeman.foreman.wait_for_task module – Wait for a task

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 5.1.0).

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 theforeman.foreman. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.wait_for_task.

New in theforeman.foreman 3.13.0

Synopsis

  • Wait for a task to finish

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

password

string / required

Password of the user accessing the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.

server_url

string / required

URL of the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.

task

string / required

Task id to wait for.

timeout

integer

How much time the task should take to be finished

Default: 60

username

string / required

Username accessing the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity

diff_mode

Support: full

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

Examples

- name: Wait for a task to finish
  theforeman.foreman.wait_for_task:
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    password: changeme
    username: admin
    task: a03ba49f-4dc2-4ad6-a48b-b271b46f3347
    timeout: 60

- name: Sarch for previously created tasks
  resource_info:
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    password: changeme
    username: admin
    resource: foreman_tasks
    search: "(label = Actions::Katello::Product::Destroy and action ~ 'Test Product' and state = running)"
  register: tasks

- name: Wait for all found tasks to finish
  wait_for_task:
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    password: changeme
    username: admin
    task: "{{ item }}"
    timeout: 900
  loop: "{{ tasks.resources | map(attribute='id') | list }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

task

dictionary

The finished task

Returned: success

Authors

  • Julien Godin (@JGodin-C2C)