ansible_tower_genie_job_templates

Description

An Ansible Role to deploy job templates in Ansible Tower.

Variables

Variable Name	Default Value	Required	Description
tower_url	""	yes	URL to the Ansible Tower Server.
tower_verify_ssl	False	no	Whether or not to validate the Ansible Tower Server's SSL certificate.
tower_secrets	False	yes	Whether or not to include variables stored in vars/tower-secrets.yml. Set this value to False if you will be providing your sensitive values from elsewhere.
tower_user	""	yes	Admin User on the Ansible Tower Server.
tower_pass	""	yes	Tower Admin User's password on the Ansible Tower Server. This should be stored in an Ansible Vault at vars/tower-secrets.yml or elsewhere and called from a parent playbook.
tower_jt_name	""	yes	Name of the job template to create in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_desc		no	Description of the job template to create in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_job_type	"run"	yes	Type of job template to define in Ansible Tower. Choices are run, check, and scan.
tower_jt_inventory	""	no	Name of the inventory to associate with the job template in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_proj	""	yes	Name of the project to associate with the job template in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_playbook	""	yes	Path of the playbook yaml file for the job template to use, relative to its path in the source control project.
tower_jt_cred	""	no	Name of the credential to associate with the job template in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_vault_cred		no	Name of the vault credential to associate with the job template in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_forks	"0"	no	The number of simultaneous connections to make during a job template execution. "0" is default and picked up from your ansible.cfg.
tower_jt_limit	""	no	Comma separated string of inventory targets to be associated with the job template in Ansible Tower.
tower_jt_verbosity	"0"	no	Verbosity level of standard out during a job template execution. Default (normal) is used when not specified. Choices are one of the following integers: 0 - normal, 1 - verbose, 2 - more verbose, 3 - debug, or 4 - connection debug.
tower_jt_extra_vars_path	""	no	Extra variables yaml file for the job template to use.
tower_jt_job_tags	""	no	Comma separated list of job tags to run during execution in the job template's associated playbook.
tower_jt_force_handlers	False	no	Whether or not to force playbook handlers to run.
tower_jt_skip_tags	""	no	Comma separated list of job tags to skip during execution in the job template's associated playbook.
tower_jt_start_at_task	""	no	Start at a particular task name in your playbook.
tower_jt_timeout	"0"	no	Timout of the playbook run.
tower_jt_fact_caching	False	no	Whether or not to use fact caching with this job template.
tower_jt_host_conf_key	""	no	Key to use during provisioning callbacks to this job template.
tower_jt_ask_diff_mode	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for diff mode.
tower_jt_ask_extra_vars	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for extra variable definitions.
tower_jt_ask_limit	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for a job limit.
tower_jt_ask_tags	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for a list of playbook tags to run.
tower_jt_ask_skip_tags	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for a list of tags to skip.
tower_jt_ask_job_type	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch to choose a job run type.
tower_jt_ask_verbosity	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for a verbosity setting.
tower_jt_ask_inventory	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for an inventory.
tower_jt_ask_cred	False	no	Whether or not to prompt on launch for a credential.
tower_jt_survey	False	no	Whether or not to enable a survey on this job template.
tower_jt_become	False	no	Whether or not to enable become during job template execution.
tower_jt_diff_mode	False	no	Whether or not to enable diff mode on the job template.
tower_jt_concurrent_jobs	False	Whether or not to enable simultaneous job runs of this job template.

Playbook Examples

Standard Role Usage

---
- hosts: all
  vars_files:
    - "vars/myvault.yml"
  roles:
    - role: "genie-job-templates"
      tower_url: "https:/my-tower-server.foo.bar"
      tower_verify_ssl: False
      tower_secrets: False
      tower_user: "admin"
      tower_pass: "{{ my_tower_vault_pass }}"
      tower_jt_name: "My Job Template"
      tower_jt_desc: "Deploy my application stack"
      tower_jt_job_type: "run"
      tower_jt_inventory: "Dev Servers"
      tower_jt_proj: "My Cool Code Repository"
      tower_jt_playbook: "playbooks/deploy_app_stack.yml"
      tower_jt_limit: "App_Servers"

License

MIT

Author

Andrew J. Huffman