mjhermanson/ansible-tower-starter

Overview

This project is intended to be a starting point for those new to Tower or are simply looking for a new use case for tower. It is intended to demonstrate how it's components are part of a functional workflow for automation and managment using Ansible. This includes the following tasks

• A basic directory structure for playbooks and the roles used by those playbooks. This is good starter project for the configuration managment use case where a periodic check and remediation of configuration drift is desired.
• (commented) examples. Users are encouraged to dig into the files and read the comments to understand how things work
• A site.yml that includes the equivelent of a hello_world. In this case printing out debug messages about the running job
• Skeleton playbooks for patching RHEL and/or Windows Servers.
• Skeleton vault files to be encrypted by the user using ansible-vault
• TODO: create a bootstrap playbook to create the Project, Job Templates, Credentials, etc

Getting Started

Until the bootstrap playbook is done you should be able to do the following.

• Fork this repo and add as a project.
• Create a Job Template that uses this site.yml, existing credentials, existing inventory,

• if you are familiar with ansible, you can create a Patching Job template from server_patching.yml. Word of caution, the clients will be patched and rebooted if necessary.

• Run the job and see debug information printed for all hosts in the inventory