Restarting httpd Service in idempotence nature
Hello Everyone,
We can restart the httpd service in an idempotence nature.
Idempotence: Idempotence means that applying an operation once or applying it multiple times has the same effect. Examples: Multiplication by zero. No matter how many times you do it, the result is still zero.
When we make any changes to configuration files then only we restart any service. If we are executing a command to restart the service it will consume compute resources.
When we run ansible-playbook for restarting the service of httpd. It will again restart the service at the target node but I want the service to only restart when I make any change to configuration files otherwise it will not restart the service of httpd and save the compute resources.
For achieving the idempotence we will use the handler module and notify task in ansible.
notify
List of handlers to notify when the task returns a ‘changed=True’ status.
handlers module in ansible
Sometimes we want a task to run only when a change is made on a machine. For example, We may want to restart a service if a task updates the configuration of that service, but not if the configuration is unchanged. Ansible uses handlers to address this use case. Handlers are tasks that only run when notified.
I have written the playbook for this giving example :
Here notify keyword will notify the handler when any change in the configuration file so that time only the httpd service restart otherwise it will not start the httpd service.
Github Link:
https://github.com/Laveenajethani/ansible_httpd_service_handler
