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Ansible AWX

ISD has the ability to perform Ansible AWX configuration management tasks as part of ISD pipelines.
AWX is a web-based solution that makes Ansible more comfortable to use. It is designed to be the hub for all automation tasks. AWX browser REST API allows you to control access, graphically manage or sync inventory with a wide variety of cloud sources, log all your jobs, and integrate well with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Ansible AWX Stage consists of the following eleven stages:

Configure Ansible AWX

GitOps style configuration:

Execute the following steps to configure Ansible AWX custom stage in GitOps style:
  1. 1.
    Edit the orca-local.yaml file in the path “default/profiles/orca-local.yaml” from the GitHub repo and update the below configuration
  2. 2.
    Provide the AWX URL and token in authorization section in base64 encoded format
  3. 3.
    Copy the orca-local.yaml file from the below. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opsmx-public/Ansible-AWX-custom-stage/master/orca-local.yaml​

Non-GitOps style configuration

Execute the following steps to configure Ansible AWX custom stage in Non-GitOps style:
  1. 1.
    Enter into the halyard pod as below mentioned.
    kubectl exec -it <NAMESPACE>-spinnaker-halyard-0 -n <SPINNAKER_NAMESPACE> -- bash
  2. 2.
    Edit the orca-local.yaml file in the path “~/default/profiles/orca-local.yaml” from the GitHub repo and update the below configuration.
  3. 3.
    Copy the orca-local.yaml file from the below. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opsmx-public/Ansible-AWX-custom-stage/master/orca-local.yaml​

Ansible AWX - Create Instance Group

Create an Instance Group from the stage by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Create Instance Group” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Create Instance Group” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Fail Fast HTTP Statuses: Comma-separated HTTP status codes (4xx or 5xx) that will cause this webhook stage to fail without retrying.
    • Credential Id: Credential id. Leave it blank if not needed
    • Is Container Group: True or False
    • Name: Name of this instance group.
    • Pod Spec Override: Provide the override.
    • Policy Instance List: List of exact-match Instances that will be assigned to this group Provide value in "" and multiple values by comma separated
    • Policy Instance Minimum: Static minimum number of Instances that will be automatically assigned to this group when new instances come online.
    • Policy Instance Percentage: Minimum percentage of all instances that will be automatically assigned to this group when new instances come online.

Ansible AWX - Create Job Template

Create a Job Template from the stage by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Create Job Template” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Create Job Template” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Fail Fast HTTP Statuses: True/False
    • Allow Callbacks: True/False
    • Allow Simultaneous: True/False
    • Ask Credential on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Diff Mode on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Inventory On Launch: True/False
    • Ask Job Type on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Limit on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Scm Branch on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Skip Tags On Launch: True/False
    • Ask Tags on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Variables on Launch: True/False
    • Ask Verbosity on Launch: True/False
    • Become Enabled: True/False
    • Description: Description about job template
    • Diff Mode: If enabled, textual changes made to any templated files on the host are shown in the standard output.
    • Execution Environment: True/False
    • Extra Vars: True/False
    • Forks: True/False
    • Host Config Key: True/False
    • Inventory: True/False
    • Job Slice count: True/False
    • Job Tags: True/False
    • Job Type: True/False
    • Limit: True/False
    • Playbook: Provide the yaml file
    • Project: Give the project name
    • Scm Branch: Branch to use in job run. Project default used if blank. Only allowed if project allow_override field is set to true
    • Timeout: The amount of time (in seconds) to run before the task is canceled.
    • Use Fact Cache: If enabled, Tower will act as an Ansible Fact Cache Plugin; persisting facts at the end of a playbook run to the database and caching facts for use by Ansible.
    • Webhook_service: Service that webhook requests will be accepted from (eg: GitHub/GitLab)
    • Webhook Credential: Personal Access Token for posting back the status to the service API

Ansible AWX - Create Project

Create a Project Configuration from the stage by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX: Create Project” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX: Create Project” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Fail Fast HTTP Statuses: Comma-separated HTTP status codes (4xx or 5xx) that will cause this webhook stage to fail without retrying
    • Allow Override: Allow changing the SCM branch or revision in a job template that uses this project
    • Credential: Need to provide the credential
    • Custom Virtualenv: Local absolute file path containing a custom Python virtualenv to use
    • Description: Description of the project
    • Local Path: Local path (relative to PROJECTS_ROOT) contains playbooks and related files for this project
    • Name: Name of the project
    • Organization: The organization used to determine access to this template
    • Scm Branch: Specific branch, tag or commit to checkout
    • Scm Clean: Discard any local changes before syncing the project
    • Scm Delete on Update: Delete the project before syncing
    • Scm Refspec: For git projects, an additional refspec to fetch
    • Scm Type: Specifies the source control system used to store the project
    • Scm Update Cache Timeout: The number of seconds after the last project update ran that a new project update will be launched as a job dependency
    • Scm Update on Launch: Update the project when a job is launched that uses the project
    • Scm Url: The location where the project is stored
    • Timeout: The amount of time (in seconds) to run before the task is

Ansible AWX - Get List of Job Templates

This stage to list the job templates available by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Get List of Job Templates” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Get List of Job Templates” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Fail Fast HTTP Statuses: Comma-separated HTTP status codes (4xx or 5xx) that will cause this webhook stage to fail without retrying

Ansible AWX - Invoke a Job Templates

This stage to invoke job template in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Invoke a Job Templates” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Invoke a Job Templates” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Fail Fast HTTP Statuses: Comma-separated HTTP status codes (4xx or 5xx) that will cause this webhook stage to fail without retrying
    • Job Template ID: Provide job template id

Ansible AWX - Name of Instance Group

This stage to update the name of an instance group in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Name of Instance Group” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Name of Instance Group” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Change Name: To what you need to change
    • Current Name : Name of the instance group which exists

Ansible AWX - Update Credential of Instance Group

This stage to update the credential of an instance group in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Update Credential of Instance Group” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Update Credential of Instance Group” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Credential Id: Id of the credential to which you want to change
    • Name : Name of the instance group which exis

Ansible AWX - Update Instance List of Instance Group

This stage to update instance list an instance group in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Update List of Instance Group” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Update List of Instance Group” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Name : Name of this instance group
    • Policy Instance List: List of exact-match Instances that will be assigned to this group. Provide value in "" and multiple values by comma separated

Ansible AWX - Update Pod Spec Override of Instance Group Configuration

This stage to update pod spec override of an instance group in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Update Pod Spec Override of Instance” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Update Pod Spec Override of Instance” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Name: Name of this instance group.
    • Pod Spec Override: Need to provide the override

Ansible AWX - Update Policy Instance Minimum of Instance Group

This stage to update policy instance minimum of an instance group in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Update Policy Instance Minimum of Instance” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Update Policy Instance Minimum of Instance” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Name : Name of this instance group.
    • Policy Instance Minimum : Static minimum number of Instances that will be automatically assigned to this group when new instances come online

Ansible AWX - Update Policy Instance Percentage of Instance Group

This stage to update the policy instance percentage of an instance group in Ansible AWX by providing the details with detailed information in the summary field.
To add “Ansible AWX - Update Policy Instance Percentage of Instance Group” stage to your pipeline follow the steps below:
  1. 1.
    Select your application and click “Pipeline builder” and click “Add Stage” and then select “Ansible AWX - Update Policy Instance Percentage of Instance Group” stage from the drop-down menu as shown below.
  2. 2.
    Now the configuration screen appears to provide the required parameters.
    Provide the following parameters on the above configuration screen:
    • Name : Name of this instance group.
    • Policy Instance Percentage: Minimum percentage of all instances that will be automatically assigned to this group when new instances come online
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