Sometimes it is useful to wait for a port to be closed, for example when updating an app that can’t always properly be shut down using other Ansible modules.
This can easily be achieved using the ansible.builtin.wait_for or ansible.builtin.win_wait_for module.
- name: Wait for port to close
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Wait for port 8000 close on the host, fail after 100 seconds
ansible.builtin.wait_for:
port: 8000
state: stopped
timeout: 100
- name: Display the config
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "Port is now closed"