Ansible - actions BEFORE gathering facts

Question

Does anyone know how to do something (like wait for port / boot of the managed node) BEFORE gathering facts? I know I can turn gathering facts off

gathe         


        

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

- hosts: my_hosts
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
      - name: wait for SSH to respond on all hosts
        local_action: wait_for port=22

      - name: gather facts
        setup:

      - continue with my tasks...

The wait_for will execute locally on your ansible host, waiting for the servers to respond on port 22, then the setup module will perform fact gathering, after which you can do whatever else you need to do.