Ansible Playbook Generator Angular UI

Before starting, for details on Ansible Docs, refer to Ansible Docs

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 8.3.29.

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Overview

The idea is to build a single production grade Angular UI with the following

  • Ability to generate Ansible Playbook instead of coding the YAML

Web App

Deployed Here on Google Cloud Platform - Kubernetes Cluster (Deprecated)

Video Sample

Motivation

To avoid the pain points of

  • Manually taking care of indentation or special characters.
  
  • Ease of interaction with UI technologies like Angular

Tech / Framework used

  --> Docker Image to host the Angular app. 
  			
  --> Angular 8

Dependencies

1. Ansible Docs Boot
2. Ansible Playbook JSON 2 YAML

Containerization CI (Continuous Integration)

CI Provider	Status
Docker
Docker Image CI

Docker Image published to DockerHub here

Image is equipped with production ready Nginx

To pull the image :

docker pull zzzmahesh/ansible-playbook-generator-ui

Run Docker Compose

Clone the repository to your local.

git clone https://github.com/maheshyaddanapudi/ansible-playbook-generator-ui.git

Verify if tha git submodules ansible-docs-boot and ansible-playbook-json2yaml have corresponding Dockerfile inside the respective folders. If not, use the below command to link and checkout

git submodule add -b main -f https://github.com/maheshyaddanapudi/ansible-docs-boot
git submodule add -b main -f https://github.com/maheshyaddanapudi/ansible-playbook-json2yaml

To run the docker-compose : For ansible-docs-boot and ansible-playbook-json2yaml into different containters, using their corresponding docker images.

docker-compose build
docker-compose up or docker-compose up -d (For deamonizing the processes)

Once all containers are started successfully, the "docker ps" output should look something similar to below.

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                  COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                     NAMES
8898cad78b57   ansible-playbook-generator-ui:latest   "/docker-entrypoint.…"   13 minutes ago   Up 13 minutes   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp                        ansible-playbook-generator-ui_ansible-playbook-generator-ui_1
6d11bf56c037   ansible-playbook-json2yaml             "/entrypoint.sh /sta…"   26 minutes ago   Up 13 minutes   80/tcp, 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5000->5000/tcp   ansible-playbook-generator-ui_ansible-playbook-json2yaml_1
1fdba166d095   ansible-docs-boot                      "/bin/bash /appln/sc…"   26 minutes ago   Up 13 minutes   0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp                    ansible-playbook-generator-ui_ansible-docs-boot_1

Access the UI --> http://localhost

Run Docker Compose - Pre-Built Images

 docker-compose -f docker-compose-suite.yml up -d

Once all containers are started successfully, the "docker ps" output should look something similar to below.

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                  COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                     NAMES
8898cad78b57   ansible-playbook-generator-ui:latest   "/docker-entrypoint.…"   13 minutes ago   Up 13 minutes   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp                        ansible-playbook-generator-ui_ansible-playbook-generator-ui_1
6d11bf56c037   ansible-playbook-json2yaml             "/entrypoint.sh /sta…"   26 minutes ago   Up 13 minutes   80/tcp, 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5000->5000/tcp   ansible-playbook-generator-ui_ansible-playbook-json2yaml_1
1fdba166d095   ansible-docs-boot                      "/bin/bash /appln/sc…"   26 minutes ago   Up 13 minutes   0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp                    ansible-playbook-generator-ui_ansible-docs-boot_1

Access the UI --> http://localhost

Run : Angular

	cd <to project root folder>
	
Below command will start the application
	ng serve

Application URLs

	http://localhost:4200 - To access Home Page

Run ansible Boot : Docker

To run the container :

docker run --name ansible-playbook-generator-ui -p 80:80 -d zzzmahesh/ansible-playbook-generator-ui:latest