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awx.awx.tower_job_wait – Wait for Ansible Tower job to finish.

Note

This plugin is part of the awx.awx collection.

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install awx.awx.

To use it in a playbook, specify: awx.awx.tower_job_wait.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
interval
float
Default:
1
The interval in sections, to request an update from Tower.
For backwards compatability if unset this will be set to the average of min and max intervals
job_id
integer / required
ID of the job to monitor.
max_interval
float
Maximum interval in seconds, to request an update from Tower.
deprecated, use interval instead
min_interval
float
Minimum interval in seconds, to request an update from Tower.
deprecated, use interval instead
timeout
integer
Maximum time in seconds to wait for a job to finish.
tower_config_file
path
Path to the Tower or AWX config file.
If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered.
tower_host
string
URL to your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_HOST and then config files
If value not specified by any means, the value of 127.0.0.1 will be used
tower_oauthtoken
raw
added in 3.7 of awx.awx
The Tower OAuth token to use.
This value can be in one of two formats.
A string which is the token itself. (i.e. bqV5txm97wqJqtkxlMkhQz0pKhRMMX)
A dictionary structure as returned by the tower_token module.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_OAUTH_TOKEN and then config files
tower_password
string
Password for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_PASSWORD and then config files
tower_username
string
Username for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_USERNAME and then config files
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether to allow insecure connections to Tower or AWX.
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_VERIFY_SSL and then config files

aliases: tower_verify_ssl

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- name: Launch a job
  tower_job_launch:
    job_template: "My Job Template"
    register: job

- name: Wait for job max 120s
  tower_job_wait:
    job_id: "{{ job.id }}"
    timeout: 120

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
elapsed
float
success
total time in seconds the job took to run

Sample:
10.879
finished
string
success
timestamp of when the job finished running

Sample:
2017-03-01T17:04:04.078782Z
id
integer
success
job id that is being waited on

Sample:
99
started
string
success
timestamp of when the job started running

Sample:
2017-03-01T17:03:53.200234Z
status
string
success
current status of job

Sample:
successful


Authors

  • Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/awx/awx/tower_job_wait_module.html