Ansible Tower REST API Part 1

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 · A survey provides a user friendly interface for parameterizing workflows or job templates in Ansible Tower. Ansible Tower CI/CD Setup. The first thing to do is setup tower-cli. This is a much better tool than curl to trigger Ansible Tower. From the webhook we will use tower-cli to update projects in Ansible Tower and launch workflows. Install.

Ansible adding a rest api key to a get request

I am a network engineer that has become the accidental admin of an ansible based network automation platform and am struggling with my limited knowledge to add an api key to a rest api get request. I've been given a key to use, for example fake-api-key: and I've tried adding it to the header of my API get call as per below.

REST API 1. Basics cheat sheet (Ansible, Bash, Postman

 · REST API 1. Basics cheat sheet (Ansible, Bash, Postman, and Python) for GET using NetBox and Docker as examples ... as it was in the Ansible. The core command curl gets variables with the request type and the path to the managed resource. The output of the command is stored to the variable, which is printed in the end. ... let's start with.

[Howto] Access Red Hat Satellite REST API via Ansible

 · As with all tools, Red Hat Satellite offers a REST API. Ansible offers a simple way to access the API. Background. Most of the programs and functions developed these days offer a REST API.Red Hat for example usually follows the "API first" methodology with most of the products these days, thus all functions of all programs can be accessed via REST API calls.

Ansible Tower / AWX

 · POSTMAN - Ansible Template job URL. To launch the ansible template, select the POST method. In the Authorization tab, feed the basic authentication for ansible Tower / AWX . 6. If the playbooks require an extra variable, you can pass it in the body of the API calls in JSON format.

Self Service Troubleshooting Using ServiceNow and Ansible

Self Service Troubleshooting Using ServiceNow and Ansible Tower. ... In my example I'm performing something known as double-hopping. ... This gives you the ability to find the tables, and explore their structure along with creating cURL API calls based on what you build. Once in the rest explorer you can choose table name, add additional.

10. Tower API Reference Guide — Ansible Tower API Guide v3.8.2

— Ansible Tower API Guide v3.8.2 Tower API Reference Guide ¶ The Ansible Tower API Reference Manual provides in-depth documentation for Tower's REST API, including examples ….

CI/CD with Ansible Tower and GitHub

 · A survey provides a user friendly interface for parameterizing workflows or job templates in Ansible Tower. Ansible Tower CI/CD Setup. The first thing to do is setup tower-cli. This is a much better tool than curl to trigger Ansible Tower. From the webhook we will use tower-cli to update projects in Ansible Tower and launch workflows. Install.

GETTING STARTED: ANSIBLE TOWER'S API

 · For example, let's say you want to add a project to your Ansible Tower instance via the API. All you would have to do is navigate to your Ansible Tower's API screen ( https:///api/v2) select the project URL (/api/v2/projects/) and then scroll down to the bottom.

Curl command to get inventory

I need to retrieve the inventory_id for a given project (project_dev is the project name) from ansible tower using curl command curl -X GET -s -k -u "user:password" -vvv -H 'Content-Type:applicat.

Convert cURL command to ansible

We can diagnose this problem using a debugging endpoint like https://httpbin.org, which you can use to see exactly what data your requests are sending.. Using the following playbook, we make the request first with curl and then with the uri module, in each case storing the respond from httpbin so that we can compare them:---

 · Ansible Tower offers various REST API to integrate with other tools. I had come across the scenario where the playbook needs to update tower inventory after provisioning cloud instance. tower-cli is one of the methods to update/import inventory on ansible tower but at the time of writing this article, tower-cli is not supported by Red Hat.

Retrieving Playbook Results from Ansible Tower/AWX

 · Ansible Tower is a hub for automation tasks that provides a web-based console and REST API for Ansible. Tower's REST API and CLI make it easy to embed Tower into existing tools and processes. A job template is a definition and set of parameters for running ansible playbooks. Job templates are useful to execute the same job many times.

Ansible URI Module for REST API

 · Vuethao - one thing you will want to change for production, is change your: validate_certs: no. to a yes. While I'm not familiar with Ansible - what this line typically means is, "do we validate the SSL/TLS certificate of the server we are communicating with?".

Consuming REST APIs using Ansible

 · Lets use a simple example of obtaining the next available IP address from a network defined on an Infoblox grid appliance using the Infoblox REST API. As per the Infoblox REST API reference guide, firstly you will need to obtain the Infoblox network reference as it will be used in subsequent API requests. The Ansible task for that would.

Retrieving Inventory Variables for External Job Template

 · We can however externally invoke the Tower REST API for the job template multiple times with different credentials passed as parameters. The inventory/group/host variables provide a convenient mechanism to store the credential ids/names that reference the Ansible Tower credentials. ... "location": "https://ansible-tower-web-svc-tower.example.

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I am trying to use the Ansible uri module to communicate with DeployHQ's API. Here is the example DeployHQ's documentation that I am trying to use from Ansible: curl -H "Content-type: application.

Ansible Tower REST API Part 1

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 · Ansible Tower features a powerful REST API and CLI that makes for easy integration with tools like Jenkins or any others in your continuous integration/delivery pipeline. Ansible Tower's browsable REST API. Source: Ansible. Additionally, it works with AWS, Rackspace, OpenStack, Google Compute Engine, Azure & VMware clouds out-of-the-box.

Summary of Authentication Methods For Red Hat Ansible Tower

 · Token authentication is best used for any programmatic use of Ansible Tower's API, such as Python scripts or tools like curl. See the example for a personal access token (PAT) below: Curl Example First, create an OAuth 2 token without an associated Application; in other words, a ….

ansible tower

For this reason the API of Red Hat Satellite - and most of the other Red Hat products - is built as REST API. I've already written an article about how to access the Satellite REST API via Ansible. Today I came across a rather handy example: sometimes you need to know the URLs of the Satellite provided repos.

30. Tower Tips and Tricks — Ansible Tower Administration

Tower overrides some ansible.cfg options. For example, Tower stores the SSH ControlMaster sockets, the SSH agent socket, and any other per-job run items in a per-job temporary directory, secured by multi-tenancy access control restrictions via PRoot.

Blog: Ansible and the Azure Rest API

 · Luckily, Ansible 2.6 introduced the azure_rm_resource module, this gives you access to create, update or delete any Azure resource using the Azure REST API, this means that if the Azure REST API supports managing the resource / feature you want to interact with then you will now be able to do it directly from Ansible.

Ansible + ServiceNow Part 3: Making outbound RESTful API

Testing connectivity between ServiceNow and Ansible Tower. 14) Clicking the Test link will take you to a results screen, which should indicate that the Restful call was sent successfully to Ansible Tower. In this example, ServiceNow kicks off an Ansible Tower job Template, and the response includes the Job ID in Ansible Tower: 276.

Callback Provisioning with Ansible Tower

One big advantage to Tower is the REST API. This means hosts can do an API call to Tower and have Tower run a playbook against your host. One way I use it is we create a systemd timer and service in the post install section of the kickstart config. After.

Summary of Authentication Methods in Red Hat Ansible Tower

Token authentication is best used for any programmatic use of Ansible Tower's API, such as Python scripts or tools like curl. See the example for a personal access token (PAT) below: Curl Example. First, create an OAuth 2 token without an associated Application; in other words, a personal access token.