How to run Ansible playbook with user input within Jenkins? - jenkins

Question

I have a playbook with section "pause" and prompt. If I create job within Jenkins with Pipeline plugin and run this job I get
[WARNING]: Not waiting from prompt as stdin is not interactive
and job is failed. The question is how I can run job in interactive mode or how I can pause playbook within exact task and push combination Ctrl+c+c (because ansible module 'pause' is working only like that)? I have googled a few time and tried to do that with
def userInput = input(
id: 'Password', message: 'input your input: ', ok: 'ok',
parameters: [string(defaultValue: '', description: '.....', name: 'INPUT_TEST')])
But I can't push keys combination and can't understand how I can pause jenkins job on specific ansible task within playbook.
Pipeline example:
pipeline {
agent { label 'master' }
environment {
WORKDIR = '/home/jenkins/'
}
stages {
stage('Checkout') {
agent { label 'master' }
steps {
sh '''cd $WORKDIR
ansible-playbook -vvvv manual_playbooks/test.yml'''
}
}
stage ('Echo') {
agent { label 'master' }
steps {
sh 'echo something'
}
}
}
}
Playbook example:
---
- name: test
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Echo start
shell: echo 'start playbook'
- pause:
prompt: "do you want to continue?"
echo: yes
private: no
register: prompt_status
- name: Continue tasks
shell: echo 'Continue full flow'
register: reset_account_response
when: prompt_status.user_input is defined and
prompt_status.user_input == "yes"
- fail:
msg: "Unexpected user input while prompting approval"
when: prompt_status.user_input is defined and
prompt_status.user_input != "yes"
Many thanks.

Answer 1

Why not put a when clause on your pause task to check for the existence of some other variable and then pass that in using Ansible's -e option when running the playbook through Jenkins.