tower_job_cancel - Cancel an Ansible Tower Job.¶

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis ¶

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

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
fail_if_not_running	Default: no	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 to the Tower config file. See notes.
tower_host		URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password		Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username		Username for your Tower instance.
tower_verify_ssl	Choices: no yes ←	Dis/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.

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

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

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

Key	Returned	Description
id int	success	job id requesting to cancel Sample: 94
status string	success	status of the cancel request Sample: canceled

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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