Add waiting for vm to be ready up to 3 mins

Author: RicHincapie

ansible/playbook-gcp-vm-create.yaml

@@ -78,3 +78,8 @@
           [gcp]
           {{ external_ip }} ansible_user={{ ansible_user }} ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsa
         dest: /tmp/inventory.ini
+
+    - name: Wait for SSH on the provisioned VM
+      import_tasks: ansible/tasks/task-vm-check-ready.yaml
+      vars:
+        wait_for_ssh_on: "{{ external_ip }}"

ansible/tasks/task-vm-check-ready.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+- name: Wait for SSH to become available on target host
+  block:
+    - name: 🔍 Check SSH port on {{ wait_for_ssh_on }}
+      ansible.builtin.wait_for:
+        host: "{{ wait_for_ssh_on }}"
+        port: 22
+        timeout: 10
+        state: started
+      register: ssh_wait_result
+      retries: 18
+      delay: 10
+      until: ssh_wait_result is succeeded
+
+    - name: SSH is now available on {{ wait_for_ssh_on }}
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "SSH is ready on {{ wait_for_ssh_on }}"
+
+  rescue:
+    - name: SSH not ready after 3 minutes
+      ansible.builtin.fail:
+        msg: "Failed to connect to {{ wait_for_ssh_on }} on port 22 after 3 minutes"