replace_ansible_pause_module

roles/asg_management/README.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ In order to manipulate an AWS Autoscaling Group (ASG) your `deploy` user must ha
 * `autoscaling:SuspendProcesses`
 * `autoscaling:DescribeScalingProcessTypes`
 * `autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups`
+* `autoscaling:StartInstanceRefresh`
 
 Set the `asg_management.name` to the machine name of your ASG in order to automatically suspend and resume autoscaling on build.
 

roles/asg_management/defaults/main.yml

@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ asg_management:
   #profile: "example" # optional, the boto profile name to use if not the system default
   region: "eu-west-1"
   suspend_processes: "Launch Terminate HealthCheck" # space separated string, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-suspend-resume-processes.html
-  pause: 5 # how long in seconds to wait before polling the AWS API again for instance statuses
+  pause: 10 # localhost ping count, to wait before polling the AWS API again for instance statuses (instead of ansible 'pause' module which seems to be buggy and hangs sometimes)

roles/asg_management/tasks/asg_target_health.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 - name: Pause so as to not hammer the AWS API.
-  ansible.builtin.pause:
-    seconds: "{{ asg_management.pause }}"
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: "ping localhost -c {{ asg_management.pause }}"
+  failed_when: false
 
 - name: Empty the target list.
   ansible.builtin.set_fact: