Reboot Ansible Playbook for an Arista vEOS machine

reboot.yml

# Reboot an Arista EOS switch
---
- name: Reboot arista eos switch
  hosts: routers
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: Reboot device
      ansible.netcommon.cli_command:
        command: reload now

    - name: Reset the connection
      ansible.builtin.meta: reset_connection

    - name: Wait for network device to come back up
      ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection:
        delay: 10

    - name: Retrieve the uptime
      ansible.netcommon.cli_command:
        command: show ver | i Uptime
      register: uptime

    - name: Show uptime
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "{{ uptime.stdout }}"

the playbook output

[student1@ansible ~]$ ansible-playbook arista.yml

PLAY [reboot arista eos router] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [reboot device] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [rtr1]
ok: [rtr3]
ok: [rtr4]
ok: [rtr2]

TASK [wait for network device to come back up] *************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [rtr2]
ok: [rtr1]
ok: [rtr4]
ok: [rtr3]

TASK [grab the uptime] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [rtr1]
ok: [rtr4]
ok: [rtr3]
ok: [rtr2]

TASK [show uptime] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [rtr2] =>
  msg: 'Uptime:                 0 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours and 2 minutes'
ok: [rtr3] =>
  msg: 'Uptime:                 0 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours and 2 minutes'
ok: [rtr4] =>
  msg: 'Uptime:                 0 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours and 2 minutes'
ok: [rtr1] =>
  msg: 'Uptime:                 0 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours and 2 minutes'

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
rtr1                       : ok=4    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
rtr2                       : ok=4    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
rtr3                       : ok=4    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
rtr4                       : ok=4    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0