Ansible sample methods to wait for a machine to boot or a port to be ready.
- name: Waits for SSH, don't start checking for 5 seconds
wait_for:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
port: 22
delay: 10
timeout: 300
state: started
- name: Wait for VMs to boot up (300, 5)
wait_for_connection:
delay: 5
timeout: 300
sleep: 5
- name: check SSH access
local_action: shell ansible -u {{ ansible_user_id }} -m ping {{ inventory_hostname }}
register: result
until: result.rc == 0
retries: 30
delay: 10
- name: Wait for VMs to boot with SSH
local_action:
module: wait_for host={{ inventory_hostname }} port=22 delay=10 connect_timeout=5 timeout=300
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