Thanks Giovanni On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:25 -0800, Tzach Livyatan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello again > > I have a command to execute X times, pausing for a few second after each > > iteration. > > One (working) way to do it is: > > - shell: sleep 60; the-command > > with_sequence: count={{X}} > > > > But its look ugly to me: > > - does not use built-in pause command > > - make each of the host iterate independently, which may cause sync issue > > > > I would like to do something like (not legal) > > - shell: the-command > > action: pause: seconds=60 > > with_sequence: count={{X}} > > Using include for the two tasks didnt work either as include and > > with_items > > is deprecated. > > > > What is the right solution in this case? > > I think your initial solution is the cleanest way to do this right now. > > I was thinking if the shell module could be enhanced to accept a pause > parameter, but I don't know how Ansible "unroll" the list of activities > that should be carried out when there is looping involved. The module > might not even know it's going to run multiple times (so then it > couldn't pause anything, because it'd think it's running just once). > > If that's the case, then perhaps the looping construct(s) would have to > accept a pause parameter. > > Perhaps something like the concept of "blocks" [1] being worked on in v2 > might help your situation. Create a block with a shell and a pause task > and iterate over them. > Yes, block is what I was looking for. Glad to see it will be available in v2. I guess Greenspun's tenth rule apply to configuration mgmt SDL as well :) > > [1] - > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/4IXdJqzhuM8/aGIJglZ8G_4J > > Giovanni > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/c3KOpaoMnhQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1423047263.4066176.222930137.04FE27E8%40webmail.messagingengine.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Regards @TzachL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAGLV4Vdm8QZApQQiZeLsgDkrmnwkWSC-W40G0wMQjs3qmjde4Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
