ctrl+c
if you wish to advance a pause earlier than it is set to expire or if you need to abort a playbook run entirely. To continue early: press ctrl+c
and then c
. To abort a playbook: press ctrl+c
and then a
.serial
playbook parameter (as in rolling updates) you are only prompted once for the current group of hosts.parameter | required | default | choices | comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
minutes |
no | A positive number of minutes to pause for. | ||
prompt |
no | Optional text to use for the prompt message. | ||
seconds |
no | A positive number of seconds to pause for. |
# Pause for 5 minutes to build app cache. - pause: minutes: 5 # Pause until you can verify updates to an application were successful. - pause: # A helpful reminder of what to look out for post-update. - pause: prompt: "Make sure org.foo.FooOverload exception is not present"
Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:
name | description | returned | type | sample |
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start | Time when started pausing | always | string | 2017-02-23 14:35:07.298862 |
user_input | User input from interactive console | if no waiting time set | string | Example user input |
delta | Time paused in seconds | always | string | 2 |
stop | Time when ended pausing | always | string | 2017-02-23 14:35:09.552594 |
stdout | Output of pause module | always | string | Paused for 0.04 minutes |
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