How to let ansible to use service instead of systemctl?

Question

I am using ansible service module to restart a system service. Below is the configuration of ansible file. When I run ansible command I got an error related to systemctl. Since my service is configured to run with service command instead of systemctl, I want ansible to use service command to start my service. Is there a way to configure ansible for that?

- name: start cooltoo_storage service
sudo: yes
service:
  name: cooltoo_storage
  state: started

I got below error when run systemctl. And I don't want to configure my service to be running with systemctl.

Job for cooltoo_storage.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status cooltoo_storage.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Answer 1

This is ansible 2.2, so above that this should work:

- name: start cooltoo_storage service
  sudo: yes
  service:
    name: cooltoo_storage
    state: started
    use: service

Basically the default value of 'use' is auto and it uses the system default service manager interface (eg. systemctl). You can override this when you know for sure that the system has 'service' command for example.

Details are found in the docs: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/service_module.html