Process Manager

Although there is the ansible.builtin.service module for manipulating services, if services do not stop cleanly this can cause problems. This role attempts to first stop and disable a service with the proper module, but if that fails it follows up with pkill and kill -9 commands for any trailing processes, to ensure the service is truly stopped.

Configuration

This role expects only the service name as a variable, it has a concept of pluggable operations but for now only the stop operation exists.

Default variables

---
process_manager:
  operation: stop
  process_name: "" # the name of the process to manage