community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen – Runs ngen to recompile DLLs after .NET updates

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.2.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen.

Synopsis

After .NET framework is installed/updated, Windows will probably want to recompile things to optimise for the host.
This happens via scheduled task, usually at some inopportune time.
This module allows you to run this task on your own schedule, so you incur the CPU hit at some more convenient and controlled time.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/ngen-exe-native-image-generator#native-image-service
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/08/06/wondering-why-mscorsvw-exe-has-high-cpu-usage-you-can-speed-it-up.aspx

Note

There are in fact two scheduled tasks for ngen but they have no triggers so aren’t a problem.
There’s no way to test if they’ve been completed.
The stdout is quite likely to be several megabytes.

- name: Run ngen tasks
  community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen:

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
dotnet_ngen64_eqi_exit_code integer	64-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 64-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.
dotnet_ngen64_eqi_output string	64-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 64-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command. Sample: sample output
dotnet_ngen64_update_exit_code integer	64-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 64-bit ngen.exe update /force command.
dotnet_ngen64_update_output string	64-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 64-bit ngen.exe update /force command. Sample: sample output
dotnet_ngen_eqi_exit_code integer	32-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 32-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.
dotnet_ngen_eqi_output string	32-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 32-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command. Sample: sample output
dotnet_ngen_update_exit_code integer	32-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 32-bit ngen.exe update /force command.
dotnet_ngen_update_output string	32-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 32-bit ngen.exe update /force command. Sample: sample output

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