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A project to leverage Ansible Tower's APIs to create a project, org, inventory, credentials, and job template, then run the job template as a job. If any of these items already exist (based on their name), they will not be created.

This has been tested with the unlimited trial version of Ansible Tower: https://www.ansible.com/tower-trial

NOTE: This is demo code to show the use of ansible tower rest apis, it should be treated as such

Configuration

Important Note

This code is for testing purposes only. Get a signed certificate for your ansible tower install and remove line 6: process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = '0';

Installing

Download the project and run npm install

ENV Vars

• PROJECT_NAME - the name of your project in tower, creates it if DNE. Default: my-project
• PROJECT_PATH - the path/folder to your project /var/lib/awx/projects/PROJECT_PATH. Default: my-project
• TOWER_API - the tower server's api path. Default: https://localhost/api/v1
• TOWER_USER or TOWER_USERNAME - the username for the tower frontend/api. Default: admin
• TOWER_PASS or TOWER_PASSWORD - the password for the tower frontend/api. Default: password
• TOWER_ORG_NAME or TOWER_ORGANIZATION_NAME - the tower org we are using. Default: Default
• TOWER_INV_NAME or TOWER_INVENTORY_NAME - the name of the inventory we are using (or making) in tower. Default: my-project-inventory
• TOWER_CRED_NAME or TOWER_CREDENTIAL_NAME - the credentail store name we are using (or making). Default: my-project-credentials
• TOWER_JOB_TEMP_NAME or TOWER_JOB_TEMPLATE_NAME - the job template name we are using/creating. Default: my-project-job-template
• TOWER_JOB_TEMP_PLAYBOOK or TOWER_JOB_TEMPLATE_PLAYBOOK - the playbook we are running for our job. Default: playbook.yml

Running

You must have a folder at the specified PROJECT_PATH that is not in use by another project, and a playbook of the specified name/location.

Run: npm start

TODO

• Cleanup
• More configuration
• Better error handling
• Automated tests