Feature: SSH disconnect

Description

Sometimes, you just wanna disconnect.

Proposal

Something like that:

  # this will force Ansible to create new connection(s) so that changes in ssh
  # settings will have effect (normally Ansible uses ControlPersist feature to
  # reuse one connection for all tasks). Note that the path to the socket must
  # be the same as what is configured in ansible.cfg.
- name: kill cached ssh connection
  local_action: >

    shell ssh -O stop {{ hostvars[item].ansible_ssh_host|default(inventory_hostname) }}
    -o ControlPath=~/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-{{ hostvars[item].ansible_ssh_host|default(inventory_hostname) }}-{{ hostvars[item].ansible_ssh_port|default('22') }}-{{ hostvars[item].ansible_ssh_user }}

  run_once: yes
  register: socket_removal
  failed_when: >
    socket_removal|failed
    and "No such file or directory" not in socket_removal.stderr
  with_items: "{{ play_hosts }}"

Links / references

Google Groups discussion