Runs an Ansible playbook YAML file. This operation takes a name or path of the specific playbook file as well as any desired arguments and runs the playbook.

Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Project Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Input

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description
Ansible Home	FDANS_INP_ANSIBLE_HOME	No	Absolute directory path where Ansible is installed.
Ansible Playbook	FDANS_INP_PLAYBOOK	Yes	Absolute or relative path to Ansible playbook YAML file. Relative path will be looked in temp and artifact directory. Absolute Path Example: /home/ubuntu/ansibleTest/testPlaybook.yml Relative Path Example: ansibleTest/testPlaybook.yml
Inventory File	FDANS_INP_INVENTORY	No	Absolute path to the inventory file to use with the playbook invocation. (CLI arg: -i)
Become Method	FDANS_INP_BECOME_METHOD	No	Privilege escalation method to use. (CLI arg: --become-method) valid choices: [ sudo \| su \| pbrun \| pfexec \| doas \| dzdo \| ksu \| runas \| machinectl ] If privilege escalation method is selected -b CLI argument will be passed.
Become User	FDANS_INP_BECOME_USER	No	Run operations as. (CLI arg: --become-user) If value is provided -b CLI argument will be passed.
Extra Variables	FDANS_INP_EXTRA_VARS	No	Additional variables as key=value, JSON text, or a JSON/YAML file. Formatted as key=value. If passing a JSON/YAML file you must use an @ before the file name. One pair per line (CLI arg: -e) Key/Value Example: var1=val1 var2=val1" JSON Example: {"version":"1.23.45","other_variable":"foo"} JSON/YAML File Example: @some_file.json
Parallel Processes	FDANS_INP_FORKS	No	Number of parallel processes to use. (CLI arg: -f)
Host Limit	FDANS_INP_LIMIT	No	Limiting of the selected hosts to an additional pattern. Outputs a list of matching hosts. If more than one the different tags must be separated by a comma.(CLI arg: -l) Multiple Hosts Example: host1,host2
Skip Tags	FDANS_INP_SKIPPED_TAGS	No	Only run plays and tasks whose tags do not match these values. If more than one the different tags must be separated by a comma. (CLI arg: --skip-tags) Multiple Tags Example: configuration,packages
Start at Task	FDANS_INP_START_AT_TASK	No	Start the playbook at the task matching this name. (CLI arg: --start-at-task)
Run Tags	FDANS_INP_TAGS	No	Only run plays and tasks tagged with these values. If more than one the different tags must be separated by a comma. (CLI arg: -t) Multiple Tags Example: configuration,packages

Outputs

Output Name	Description

Artifacts

This operation delegates consumes/produces artifacts decision to the workflow developer. Check Consumes Artifacts on the workflow step editor if this operation requires artifacts to be delivered prior to execution of the script. Check Produces Artifacts on the workflow step editor if this operation creates artifacts. The artifacts folder is available via the FD_ARTIFACTS_DIR variable.

Endpoint Selection

This operation delegates endpoint selection to the workflow developer. The workflow editor will default the selection to "All", which selects all available endpoints associated to the environment instance. Selecting a specific resource will result in selection of endpoints associated to the environment instance which have that resource defined. Ansible must be installed on any endpoint that executes this plugin. The user can use the LOCALHOST endpoint if Ansible is installed on the FlexDeploy server.

Endpoint Execution

This operation delegates endpoint execution to the workflow developer. The workflow editor will default to "Any", which will execute on any one of the selected endpoints, which will be randomly picked from selected endpoints or a specific endpoint where previous step may have executed. Changing this value to "All" to will result in execution on all selected endpoints. This operation will execute on any one of the selected endpoints and will be random in the determination of which one.

Example

Below you can see an example of inputs used on the runAnsiblePlaybook plugin operation.

Below is the Ansible playbook that is saved in /home/ubuntu/ansibleTest. This plugin verifies that Apache is up to date, starts the server if it is not running, and stops the server if it is running.

/home/ubuntu/ansibleTest/testPlaybook.yml

---
- hosts: dkrlp01
#  become: yes
  tasks:
          - name: verify latest version Apache
            apt:
                name: apache2
                update_cache: yes
                state: latest

          - name: ensure httpd is running
            service:
                name: apache2
                state: started
          - name: stop apache
            service:
                    name: apache2
                    state: stopped

Below is the hosts inventory file that is saved in /home/ubuntu/ansibleTest

Inventory file

[webservers]
www1.example.com
www2.example.com

[dbservers]
db0.example.com
db1.example.com