I’ve used Ansible for years, but only started using their web-front end, Tower more recently. (Note, the upstream code was open-sourced last year, and it’s worth checking out, they call it AWX) So while I’m never a big fan of UI tools, Tower has proven quite helpful in allowing other teams access to deploying to their own dev servers from my Ansible code. There also have a cli tool to control Tower called (suprise) tower-cli that allows you to interact with Tower’s API. While it’s helpful, it’s lacking a few features, so I worked up a wrapper script to handle my workflow. Here’s the gist, with docs on how to install tower-cli, and run the tool. Give me some feedback if you have questions, of find it helpful.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # tower-job | |
| # https://gist.github.com/philcryer/fdce90d0b06517a49ff2fdba41b579df | |
| # Variables | |
| tower_template_id=574 | |
| # Directions | |
| # | |
| # install tower-cli | |
| # sudo pip install tower-cli | |
| # | |
| # put this file in a root of your project | |
| # {{ project_root }}/tower-job | |
| # | |
| # create a file ~/.tower-cli.cfg with contents: | |
| # | |
| # [general] | |
| # host = fqdn.yourhost.com | |
| # username = your-username | |
| # password = ssssshhhhhhhh | |
| # | |
| # add variables from your tower survey to a vars file. we'll use group_vars/tower-job.yml | |
| # --- | |
| # survey_env: "DEV" | |
| # survey_version: "2.0" | |
| # survey_mychart_customer: "bob" | |
| # | |
| # define your job template ID # in variables above | |
| # job_template_id=574 | |
| # | |
| # make this file executable | |
| # chmod 755 tower-job | |
| # | |
| # then run it | |
| # ./tower-job | |
| set -e | |
| if [ ! -d 'group_vars' ]; then | |
| echo "No group_vars found, run this out of root of project"; exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| tower-cli job launch --job-template=$tower_template_id --extra-vars="@group_vars/tower-job.yml" | tee tower-job.pid | |
| job_id=$(cat tower-job.pid | tail -n2 | head -n1 | awk '{print $1}') | |
| rm tower-job.pid | |
| while [ $(tower-cli job list --status=running | grep $job_id | wc -l) -lt '1' ]; do | |
| echo -n "-"; sleep 5; | |
| done; | |
| tower-cli job monitor $job_id | |
| exit 0 |