Jenkins job’s build name would be named with the numeric number by default in increment manner. After configuring the Jenkins job, the first build job would be named as “1”, the second job would be named as “2” and so on. Most of the cases, no one prefers to change the default build naming algorithm. […]
Ansible
Jenkins Console – Xterm Terminal – Colorized Ansible playbook Output
This artcile will walk through the installing and configuring Ansicolor plugin in Jenkins to make colorized output in ansible playbook stdout. Jenkins console is very plain and simple. If you are using Jenkins to run the ansible playbook, you might notice that colorful output might be missing. Ansible Tower/AWX offers the colorful stdout in the […]
Ansible – Configure Windows servers as Ansible Client – winrm
Ansible is not just for Linux. It can also be used for Windows servers automation. This article will explain how to prepare windows servers for Ansible automation. Ansible uses WinRM protocol to establish a connection with Windows hosts. (i.e Linux/Unix like hosts uses SSH protocol). Ansible requires PowerShell 3.0 or newer and at least .NET […]
Jenkins – Passing Extra variables for Ansible Playbook
Ansible Playbooks are often written with many extra variables to pass the human inputs. In Ansible Tower /AWX, “SURVEY” feature is used to pass the extra variable to the playbook. If you are using Jenkins as your front-end graphical interface, you might be wondering how to pass the ansible extra variable. This article will walk […]
Ansible Engine – Run Playbook using Jenkins – GUI
Can’t afford Ansible Tower? Worried about AWX stability (Open Source Ansible Tower’s upstream Project )? Jenkins is more than enough to run the Ansible playbook from GUI. Ansible Tower’s main selling point is RBAC (Role based access control), credentials encryption and REST API. When you use Jenkins, it has plenty of plugins to offer role-based […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – Installing & Configuring Tower-cli
Tower-CLI (tower-cli) is a command line tool for managing Ansible Tower/AWX. It allows Tower commands to be easily run from the Unix/Linux command line. This command line tool sends commands to the Tower RESTful API. It is capable of retrieving, creating, modifying, and deleting most resources within the Tower. It also used for creating objects […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – Trigger Ansible Job using REST API
Ansible AWX / Ansible Tower supports RESTfull API calls. It provides greater flexibility that you no need to be in Ansible Tower/AWX console to start the template or read the ansible job results. You could post the API from anywhere. It could be a web portal or from your laptop using POSTMAN/SoapUI. This article will […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – Passing Variables using SURVEY (extra-vars)
Ansible Tower’s Survey one of the cool feature which can be used to populate the variables every time the Template is executed. Ansible playbook might contain one more user variable depends on the use cases. If you want to attach such playbook in AWX / Ansible Tower template, you need to pass the variables in […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – Creating SCM Git Project in Ansible
Ansible playbooks and roles must be kept in the Git repositories. Git provides a great mechanism to track the changes in the source code (i.e Playbooks). It also allows playbook developers to create a new branch and work on the codes without impacting the production. Ansible offers an option to pull the new codes on […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – Creating Workflow Template
Ansible workflow combines one or more resources links together in a sequence of disparate resources with conditional job results. This allows us to create a template for each task and combine in one workflow based on the results. The following resource could co-exist in workflows. inventory source syncs job templates project syncs workflow templates This […]