How can I show progress for a long-running Ansible task?

Question

I have a some Ansible tasks that perform unfortunately long operations - things like running an synchronization operation with an S3 folder. It\'s not always clear if they\'re

Answer 1

Ansible has since implemented the following:

---
# Requires ansible 1.8+
- name: 'YUM - async task'
  yum:
    name: docker-io
    state: installed
  async: 1000
  poll: 0
  register: yum_sleeper

- name: 'YUM - check on async task'
  async_status:
    jid: "{{ yum_sleeper.ansible_job_id }}"
  register: job_result
  until: job_result.finished
  retries: 30

For further information, see the official documentation on the topic (make sure you're selecting your version of Ansible).