Reboot

A role for rebooting hosts.

Requirements

• Hosts should be bootstrapped for ansible usage (have python,...)
• Root privileges, eg become: yes

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default value
reboot_message	Reboot message for the logs	'Reboot by Ansible'
reboot_wait	Wait for hosts to come back online?	'yes'
reboot_connect_timeout	Connection timeout before retrying.	20
reboot_wait_host	Host to check	ansible_ssh_host or inventory_hostname
reboot_wait_port	Port to check	ansible_ssh_port or 22
reboot_wait_regex	String to match in the socket connection. (ex. OpenSSH)	/
reboot_wait_delay	Time to wait before polling the host (seconds)	10
reboot_wait_timeout	Timeout for host to come back up successfully (seconds)	300
reboot_wait_ctimeout	Timeout for each connection attempt (seconds)	5
reboot_interval	Interval between reboot and next task?	'no'
reboot_interval_seconds	Seconds to pause after reboot	0

Attention:

All boolean values can be used with either 'yes'/'no' or true/false. This allows you to alter their value from the command line (-e "bool=yes") without problems.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Performing a basic reboot:

---
- hosts: servers
  become: yes
  roles:
  - role: GROG.reboot
    reboot_message: 'Test reboot role'

Performing a rolling reboot:

---
- hosts: servers
  become: yes
  serial: 1
  roles:
  - role: GROG.reboot
    reboot_interval: 'yes'
    reboot_interval_seconds: 60

Contributing

All assistance, changes or ideas welcome!

Author

By G. Roggemans

License

MIT