How to reboot CentOS 7 with Ansible?

Question

I\'m trying to reboot server running CentOS 7 on VirtualBox. I use this task:

- name: Restart server
  command: /sbin/reboot
  async: 0
  poll:          


        

Answer 1

if you're using Ansible version >=2.7, you can use reboot module as described here

The synopsis of the reboot module itself:

Reboot a machine, wait for it to go down, come back up, and respond to commands.

In a simple way, you can define a simple task like this:

    - name: reboot server
      reboot:

But you can add some params like test_command to test if your server is ready to take further tasks

    - name: reboot server
      reboot:
        test_command: whoami

Hope this helps!