Timing out a specific step

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Timing out a specific step

To timeout a specific step of ansible use:

  - name: Sleep for 30 seconds
    shell: sleep 30
    aysnc: 20
    poll: 5

This would timeout the sleep after 20s after checking whether command has completed executing every 5 seconds.