Is it possible to use start init.d service using Ansible?

Question

Ansible will fail the task below

- name: Start opendj
  service: name={{opendj_service_name}} state=started enabled=yes

because the service is a init.d service and not systemd

Is it possibe to start a init.d service using Ansible?

Answer 1

Have you tried as below

- name: make sure {{opendj_service_name}} is started
  sysvinit:
      name: {{opendj_service_name}}
      state: started
      enabled: yes