update-frontend-prod now works whether the app is already running or not

README.md

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ $ ansible-playbook -i hosts refresh-frontend-cert.yml --key-file="/path/to/key/o
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 ### TODO
-1. Fix error in update-frontend-prod where playbook fails if Flask app isn't already running
-2. Complete setup-frontend-prod.yml
-3. Automate installation of Python 3.7 and pip3
-4. Setup Ansible Vault to handle keys
+1. Complete setup-frontend-prod.yml
+2. Automate installation of Python 3.7 and pip3
+3. Setup Ansible Vault to handle keys

update-frontend-prod.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 - hosts: cce_frontend_prod
   tasks:
 
-  - name: Check if app is running
-    shell: "ps -few | grep 'flask run' | wc -l"
-    register: num_matches
-
-  # TODO: This command ignores the conditional
-  - name: Bring down current instance if running
+  - name: Bring down the app if it is running (ignore error msg)
     command: "killall flask"
-    when: num_matches.stdout != "1"
+    ignore_errors: true
 
   - name: Pull from GitHub
     git: