Hi, here is an example: trigger a reboot (no need to wait)
do not wait for task completion - poll:0 you cannot wait in that case as the System will reboot breaking the ssh connection. - name: Reboot the system shell: sleep 2 && shutdown -r now "Ansible reboot triggered" async: 1 poll: 0 another example would be to trigger an action that take a long time but you don't care about the result like: recursively delete a whole hierarchy of directories/files on a system hope this help. 2017-07-11 16:01 GMT+02:00 Luvpreet Singh <[email protected]>: > I have read the asynchronous actions and polling in Ansible docs. But I > could not understand it. > > I understand that poll means the time interval after which the status of > the job will be checked. > > I think Async means the interval for which to keep the connection open. If > yes, What will happen after the connection is closed ? Will the task be > completed ? > > And I really did not understand the fire and forget tasks. > > Can somebody please make it a bit clearer with the help of an easy example > ? > > -- > 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/a10abc4e-b130-4029-9020-d40ad2362508%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a10abc4e-b130-4029-9020-d40ad2362508%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAB1FMuSaxmmgc7Ob3UUhkx3FTzieya%2BQ7%3DDHKjUtE_0PrNdhjw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
