wait_for - Waits for a condition before continuing¶

Synopsis¶

• You can wait for a set amount of time timeout, this is the default if nothing is specified or just timeout is specified. This does not produce an error.
• Waiting for a port to become available is useful for when services are not immediately available after their init scripts return which is true of certain Java application servers. It is also useful when starting guests with the virt module and needing to pause until they are ready.
• This module can also be used to wait for a regex match a string to be present in a file.
• In 1.6 and later, this module can also be used to wait for a file to be available or absent on the filesystem.
• In 1.8 and later, this module can also be used to wait for active connections to be closed before continuing, useful if a node is being rotated out of a load balancer pool.
• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Options¶

Examples¶

- name: sleep for 300 seconds and continue with play
  wait_for: timeout=300
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Wait 300 seconds for port 8000 to become open on the host, don't start checking for 10 seconds
  wait_for:
    port: 8000
    delay: 10

- name: Wait 300 seconds for port 8000 of any IP to close active connections, don't start checking for 10 seconds
  wait_for:
    host: 0.0.0.0
    port: 8000
    delay: 10
    state: drained

- name: Wait 300 seconds for port 8000 of any IP to close active connections, ignoring connections for specified hosts
  wait_for:
    host: 0.0.0.0
    port: 8000
    state: drained
    exclude_hosts: 10.2.1.2,10.2.1.3

- name: Wait until the file /tmp/foo is present before continuing
  wait_for:
    path: /tmp/foo

- name: Wait until the string "completed" is in the file /tmp/foo before continuing
  wait_for:
    path: /tmp/foo
    search_regex: completed

- name: Wait until the lock file is removed
  wait_for:
    path: /var/lock/file.lock
    state: absent

- name: Wait until the process is finished and pid was destroyed
  wait_for:
    path: /proc/3466/status
    state: absent

- name: Output customized message when failed
  wait_for:
    path: /tmp/foo
    state: present
    msg: Timeout to find file /tmp/foo

# Don't assume the inventory_hostname is resolvable and delay 10 seconds at start
- name: Wait 300 seconds for port 22 to become open and contain "OpenSSH"
  wait_for:
    port: 22
    host: '{{ (ansible_ssh_host|default(ansible_host))|default(inventory_hostname) }}'
    search_regex: OpenSSH
    delay: 10
  connection: local

# Same as above but you normally have ansible_connection set in inventory, which overrides 'connection'
- name: Wait 300 seconds for port 22 to become open and contain "OpenSSH"
  wait_for:
    port: 22
    host: '{{ (ansible_ssh_host|default(ansible_host))|default(inventory_hostname) }}'
    search_regex: OpenSSH
    delay: 10
  vars:
    ansible_connection: local

Notes¶