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

I was trying to figure out how to provision a host from ec2, wait for ssh to come up, and then run my playbook against it. Which is basically the same use case as you have. I ended up with the following:

- name: Provision App Server from Amazon
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:  
    # ####  call ec2 provisioning tasks here  ####
    - name: Add new instance to host group
      add_host: hostname="{{item.private_ip}}" groupname="appServer"
      with_items: ec2.instances

- name: Configure App Server
  hosts: appServer
  remote_user: ubuntu
  gather_facts: True
  tasks:  ----configuration tasks here----

I think the ansible terminology is that I have two plays in a playbook, each operating on a different group of hosts (localhost, and the appServer group)