tower_job_cancel – Cancel an Ansible Tower Job

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
fail_if_not_running
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Fail loudly if the job_id does not reference a running job.
job_id
- / required
ID of the job to cancel
tower_config_file
path
Path to the Tower config file.
tower_host
string
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
string
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
string
Username for your Tower instance.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether to allow insecure connections to Tower.
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

aliases: tower_verify_ssl

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- name: Cancel job
  tower_job_cancel:
    job_id: job.id

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
id
integer
 success
job id requesting to cancel

Sample:
94
status
string
 success
status of the cancel request

Sample:
canceled


Status

Authors

  • Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/tower_job_cancel_module.html