ansible-rancher-module

Module to manage Rancher through Ansible

You can configure the stacks, the environments and the catalogs.

- name: 'Rancher module'
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - name: 'Setup Rancher'
      rancher:
        url: 'https://rancher.url/'
        access_key: 'ACCESS_KEY'
        secret_key: 'SECRET_KEY'
        catalogs:
          - url: 'https://.../rancher-catalog.git'
            name: 'MyCatalog'
            branch: 'master'
        environments:
          - name: Production
            stacks:
              - name: Janitor
                catalog_entry: 'MyCatalog:Janitor'
                answers:
                  - name: 'FREQUENCY'
                    value: '9200'
    - name: 'Display Registration Token'
      debug:
        msg: "Rancher Production Token is {{ rancher.envs.Production.token }}"

This playbook will :

• Add or update a catalog named MyCatalog with repository (https://.../rancher-catalog.git) on master branch
• Add a Production environment if it doesn't exist
• Add or update a Janitor stack based on the Janitor item of the catalog MyCatalog, with variable FREQUENCY set to 9200
• Gather fact in rancher.envs with registration token

Parameters

Name	Required	Value	Default
url	*	Rancher URL
access_key	*	API Access Key
secret_key	*	API Secret Key
catalogs		List of catalogs to add
environments		List of environments to add
clean_envs		Keep only specified environments	False
clean_catalogs		Keep only specified catalogs	False
clean_stacks		Keep only specified environments	False

catalog

url: 'https://.../rancher-catalog.git'
name: 'MyCatalog'
branch: 'master'

branch is by default master

name is used for matching catalog

environments

name: Default
stacks:
  - ...

name is the main key

stacks list of stack

stack

name: Janitor
catalog_entry: 'Arken:Janitor'
answers:
	- name: 'FREQUENCY'
	  value: '9200'

name of the stack

catalog_entry or (rancher_compose and docker_compose) to specify the stack catalog_entry use CatalogName:TemplateKey format, it will load the rancher_compose and docker_compose from the catalog. Or you can directly define your composes. You can find the templateKey when browsing to the item : https://rancherurl/env/1a5/catalog/Arken:infra\*datadog?catalogId=Arken, the key is infra*datadog

answers the different values to use for rancher compose, list of (name, value)