wait_for – Waits for a condition before continuing

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• See Also
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

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 Ansible 1.6 and later, this module can also be used to wait for a file to be available or absent on the filesystem.
• In Ansible 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.
• For Windows targets, use the win_wait_for module instead.

Parameters

Notes

See Also

Examples

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

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

- name: Waits 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 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 regex pattern matches in the file /tmp/foo and print the matched group
  wait_for:
    path: /tmp/foo
    search_regex: completed (?P<task>\w+)
  register: waitfor
- debug:
    msg: Completed {{ waitfor['groupdict']['task'] }}

- 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

# Do not 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

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Jeroen Hoekx (@jhoekx)
• John Jarvis (@jarv)
• Andrii Radyk (@AnderEnder)