I have opened a request for an integrated enhancement with Ansible: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46649
However, Kai Stian Olstad solution is a good work around, in the meantime. On Friday, October 5, 2018 at 1:59:05 PM UTC-7, bglowacki wrote: > > I'm working on a project to perform windows patching across a large pool > of 450 Windows build agents. The build agents need to be patched monthly. > Once a month, each agent needs to be offlined as a build agent, patched > using bigfix, reboot - and then brought back online as a build agent. I > have written a series of python scripts launched from ansible to do this - > and it works pretty well but is not optimal. > > Currently, the project works against 5 build agents at a time to reduce > the impact associated with greatly reducing build resources at any given > time. To do this, I utilize the serial: 5 option on my playbook plays - > which works to limit the patching to 5 agents at a time. However, all > agents must be complete before ansible moves on to the next group of 5 > agents. Some of our build agents get involved with activities that can take > as long as 8 hours to offline, but much more often they take less than 20 > minutes. Since all 5 agents must be finished prior to the play continuing > on to the next set of agents, this greatly increases the length of time to > apply these patches. I can't move on unless the blocking 8 hour agent is > finished! > > What I would like is to be able to specify 5 agents "at a time," meaning > that, when one of the 5 agents finishes with the patching play, it will > automatically start the play against another agent - always keeping the > maximum number of agents getting patched at any give time to be 5. That > way, if one agent is blocked for 8 hours, the remaining 4 slots can be used > to cycle through the remaining build agents - and so on. > > Is there some combination of the serial/forks options that would provide > me this kind of capability - or am I asking for a new feature enhancement? > -- 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/402311f5-84de-4f04-bcad-b63f3dd1ce4c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
