Feature Spotlight: Reboot Sam Doran, Senior Software Engineer, Red - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Feature Spotlight: Reboot

Sam Doran, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Ansible Core

History How the reboot plugin works Examples

Agenda

Future features

HISTORY

History

• win_reboot since Ansible 2.1
• shell module for Linux hosts prior to Ansible 2.7
• win_reboot:
• shell: sleep 2 && shutdown -r now

async: 60 poll: 0

• reboot since Ansible 2.7
• win_reboot:
• reboot:

HOW IT WORKS

How it works

• Action plugin vs module
• What it does:

○ gathers facts on target system ○ gets last boot time ○ looks up the appropriate command and gets the full path ○ looks up appropriate command flags ○ runs the reboot command ○ continually checks the last boot time ○ runs the post-reboot validation command

EXAMPLES

FUTURE

Future

• add parameter for the reboot binary name
• support more operating systems
• ther community-based features

Thank you

Sam Doran, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat https://github.com/samdoran/demo-playbooks