From 043dc3e40eeee0060d3989c63b22182994db86c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dylan DiGeronimo <dylandigeronimo1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:06:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] update-frontend-prod now works whether the app is already
 running or not

---
 README.md                | 7 +++----
 update-frontend-prod.yml | 9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9e6046b..01a3c93 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ $ ansible-playbook -i hosts refresh-frontend-cert.yml --key-file="/path/to/key/o
 ```
 
 ### 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
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+1. Complete setup-frontend-prod.yml
+2. Automate installation of Python 3.7 and pip3
+3. Setup Ansible Vault to handle keys
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/update-frontend-prod.yml b/update-frontend-prod.yml
index 96242f9..3dc482e 100644
--- a/update-frontend-prod.yml
+++ b/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: