pause - Pause playbook execution

• Synopsis
• Options
• Examples
• Return Values
• Notes
  • Status
  • Maintenance Info

Synopsis

• Pauses playbook execution for a set amount of time, or until a prompt is acknowledged. All parameters are optional. The default behavior is to pause with a prompt.
• To pause/wait/sleep per host, use the wait_for module.
• You can use 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.
• The pause module integrates into async/parallelized playbooks without any special considerations (see Rolling Updates). When using pauses with the serial playbook parameter (as in rolling updates) you are only prompted once for the current group of hosts.
• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Options

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.

Examples

# 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"

Return Values

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

name	description	returned	type	sample
delta	Time paused in seconds	always	string	2
start	Time when started pausing	always	string	2017-02-23 14:35:07.298862
stdout	Output of pause module	always	string	Paused for 0.04 minutes
stop	Time when ended pausing	always	string	2017-02-23 14:35:09.552594
user_input	User input from interactive console	if no waiting time set	string	Example user input

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance Info

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