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Tobias Wolf f1ae2eb4f1 systemd: Add boolean option to enable --no-block
In our environment we have custom services that need to be stopped and
restarted very gracefully to not interrupt active sessions.

A stop job, depending on the state, can take up to 20 minutes until the
process exits. It simply reacts to SIGTERM with a graceful shutdown.

By default, systemctl blocks until the job has completed, which leads to
Ansible hanging on this task for up to 20 minutes.

Thankfully systemctl supports the `--no-block` flag which lets the job
continue in the background.

This PR adds support for that flag as the `no_block` boolean option.

From the man page:

   --no-block
       Do not synchronously wait for the requested operation to
       finish. If this is not specified, the job will be
       verified, enqueued and systemctl will wait until the
       unit's start-up is completed. By passing this argument,
       it is only verified and enqueued. This option may not be
       combined with --wait.
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.github Remove the hint to report module issue elsewhere. 2016-12-14 11:30:44 -05:00
bin adds some more logging to ansible-connection (#20205) 2017-01-12 19:20:25 -05:00
contrib vmware_inventory: permit to group by custom field & customize skip_keys (#20125) 2017-01-12 09:37:18 -05:00
docs Added support statement for older releases. 2017-01-13 11:59:16 -08:00
examples Enable -Verbose and log to EventLog (#19909) 2017-01-10 23:52:41 -08:00
hacking Switch tests to pytest and ansible-test. 2017-01-11 12:34:59 -08:00
lib/ansible systemd: Add boolean option to enable --no-block 2017-01-13 16:26:06 -05:00
packaging (docs) Remove/update mentions of git submodule in docs and error me… (#19941) 2017-01-09 12:11:39 -05:00
test Only add Content-Type if not specified in headers. Fixes #20046 (#20234) 2017-01-13 13:19:38 -05:00
ticket_stubs Remove obsolete ticket stubs. 2016-12-08 11:35:20 -05:00
.coveragerc Update coverage exclusions. (#18675) 2016-11-29 22:46:56 -08:00
.gitattributes updated changelog with 1.8.2-4 content, added .gitattributes 2015-02-23 22:20:33 +00:00
.gitignore Complete initial network-integration support. 2017-01-12 12:39:00 -08:00
.gitmodules Code cleanup. 2016-12-08 11:35:04 -05:00
.mailmap Add new mailmap entry for @willthames 2017-01-05 10:59:43 -05:00
.yamllint Lint YAML files under test/ 2016-11-11 14:50:57 -08:00
ansible-core-sitemap.xml Remove remnants of obsolete fireball mode. 2016-12-09 16:56:34 -07:00
CHANGELOG.md Sync changelog with recent illumos networking modules (#20074) 2017-01-10 13:18:52 +00:00
CODING_GUIDELINES.md Migrate basestring to a python3 compatible type (#17199) 2016-08-23 13:13:44 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Update CONTRIBUTING.md with more recent developments 2016-03-23 15:32:29 +01:00
COPYING license file should be in source tree 2012-03-15 20:24:22 -04:00
Makefile Pass CPUS from top Makefile to docs Makefile 2017-01-13 14:41:14 -05:00
MANIFEST.in include all docs and tests in the sdist (#20004) 2017-01-10 13:30:33 -08:00
MODULE_GUIDELINES.md Move GUIDELINES.md from modules repo (#19313) 2016-12-14 11:46:14 -05:00
README.md Remove obsolete files and instructions. (#19079) 2016-12-09 12:42:29 -05:00
RELEASES.txt brought releases up to date 2016-11-17 10:57:44 -05:00
ROADMAP.rst fixed docs links 2017-01-06 10:24:13 -05:00
setup.py Updating setup.py to remove extras specific paths 2016-12-08 11:35:19 -05:00
shippable.yml Enable first network tests on Shippable. (#20208) 2017-01-12 18:23:53 -08:00
tox.ini Fix envlist in tox.ini 2017-01-09 10:13:09 -05:00
VERSION Bumping devel version to 2.3.0 2016-10-03 11:46:31 -05:00

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Ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task-execution, and multinode orchestration - including trivializing things like zero downtime rolling updates with load balancers.

Read the documentation and more at https://ansible.com/

Many users run straight from the development branch (it's generally fine to do so), but you might also wish to consume a release.

You can find instructions here for a variety of platforms.

If you want to download a tarball of a release, go to releases.ansible.com, though most users use yum (using the EPEL instructions linked above), apt (using the PPA instructions linked above), or pip install ansible.

Design Principles

  • Have a dead simple setup process and a minimal learning curve
  • Manage machines very quickly and in parallel
  • Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by leveraging the existing SSH daemon
  • Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human friendly
  • Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content
  • Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any software
  • Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python
  • Be usable as non-root
  • Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.

Get Involved

  • Read Community Information for all kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project, including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and code to Ansible.
  • All code submissions are done through pull requests. Take care to make sure no merge commits are in the submission, and use git rebase vs git merge for this reason. If submitting a large code change (other than modules), it's probably a good idea to join ansible-devel and talk about what you would like to do or add first and to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone know what's going on, it also helps save time and effort if we decide some changes are needed.
  • Users list: ansible-project
  • Development list: ansible-devel
  • Announcement list: ansible-announce - read only
  • irc.freenode.net: #ansible

Branch Info

  • Releases are named after Led Zeppelin songs. (Releases prior to 2.0 were named after Van Halen songs.)
  • The devel branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
  • For releases 1.8 - 2.2, modules are kept in different repos, you'll want to follow core and extras
  • Various release-X.Y branches exist for previous releases.
  • We'd love to have your contributions, read Community Information for notes on how to get started.

Authors

Ansible was created by Michael DeHaan (michael.dehaan/gmail/com) and has contributions from over 1000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!

Ansible is sponsored by Ansible, Inc

Licence

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