Alexandru Obretin <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am working on a project that wants to provide ansible support for a 
> solution that exposes a REST API. Over this API I designed an intermediate 
> python layer to translate the yaml playbook into REST calls.
>
> In my case, the playbook is composed of one task executed multiple times. 
> During execution, I open a http connection to the actual target equipment 
> using the python library requests, get an authentication token and send 
> http calls. I noticed in the log files that although my fetch 
> authentication token mechanism is a singleton class and all the tasks are 
> executed against the same IP address, for each task the session is 
> recreated and a new token is fetched.
>
> Is there a way to reuse the http connection within the task list?
>
> I have seen a similar post called: *connection caching throughout a play *but 
> I hope there might be a workaround.


Hi Alexandru,

You can use a HttpApi plugin for that. See:

  https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/httpapi.html

Best regards,
--
    Gonéri Le Bouder

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