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Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 18:09 EDT • ∞
Rebooting Linux systems with Ansible has always been possible, but was tricky and error-prone. In Ansible 2.7, I am happy to say that rebooting Linux hosts with Ansible is finally easy and can be done with a single task using the newly minted reboot plugin .
The win_reboot module was written by Matt Davis and included with Ansible 2.1. Rebooting Windows hosts is a much more common occurrence than rebooting Linux hosts. Necessity is the mother of invention, so it made sense that win_reboot appeared before the equivalent for Linux. And while less than elegant, it is possible to reboot Linux hosts using shell and wait_for or wait_for_connection 1 .