Ansible Tower module

The OneFuse Ansible Tower module allows admins to create API-based, Ansible-powered services to drive solutions from upstream automation tools or scripts.

OneFuse codeless, policy-based integrations can securely power other automation tools and services such as VMware Aria Automation, Terraform, and others via API.

Highlights

• Provides control and standardization for resources on both public and private cloud (on-prem) environments.
• OneFuse enables least-privilege access wherein each policy serves as an API-based service, restricted to the specific use cases defined in the policy, without exposing the full Tower API or over-allocating permissions to users or upstream automation tools.
• Each policy defines the automation use case, organization, inventory, specific provisioning and deprovisioning job templates, and overrides.
• In addition to all of this, it offers the added flexibility of allowing the requester to influence the assignments dynamically via templated fields.

Setup overview

1. In OneFuse, select Ansible Tower from Home, or select Modules > Ansible Tower from the left navigation menu.
2. Create an Ansible Tower Policy.
3. Enter Lifecycle Job Templates.
4. Manage Inventory and Inventory Groups.
5. Run Ansible Tower Playbooks on Inventory Groups through the OneFuse API or an Upstream Provider.

Create an Ansible Tower policy

1. In OneFuse, select Ansible Tower under Modules. Or, select Modules > Ansible Tower from the left navigation menu.
2. Select Create on the top right of the Ansible Tower Policies panel.
3. Fill out the Ansible Tower Policy form.
4. Input Lifecycle Job Templates to provision and/or de-provision the Ansible Tower policy.
5. When finished, select Create.

Edit an Ansible Tower policy

1. In OneFuse, select Ansible Tower under Modules. Or, select Modules > Ansible Tower from the left navigation menu.
2. Locate the policy to edit and select the Edit icon.
3. Go to the correct tab using the Next and Back buttons at the top of the page.
4. Select Update to save the changes.

Enter lifecycle job template(s)

OneFuse integration with Ansible introduces lifecycle (provision + deprovision) management as part of the policy service. Lifecycle job templates allow integration into Upstream Provider tools that also support lifecycle concepts.

1. From the Ansible Tower Module Page, select Create to begin a new Ansible Tower policy. Or, select the Edit icon on an existing policy.
2. Select the Jobs tab, or Next: Job(s). Input the Provisioning Job Template(s) for this Ansible Tower Policy in the fields for Provisioning and Deprovisioning.
3. Select Update to save the changes.

Manage inventory and inventory groups

1. From the Ansible Tower Module Page, select Create to begin a new Ansible Tower policy. Or, select the Edit icon on an existing policy.
2. Select the Inventory tab. Enter the Inventory and/or Inventory Group name(s) as either a mix of static and templated text in the first field, or as an array in the second field provided. To separate the Inventory Group Name(s) use the Inventory Group Separator Character: “/”.
3. After entering values in either field, select the View icon for a preview of the Inventory Name rendered with the Active Static Property Set, if set.
4. Select Update to save the changes.

Prompt on launch overrides

1. From the Ansible Tower Module Page, select Create to begin a new Ansible Tower policy. Or, select the Edit icon on an existing policy.
2. Select the Overrides tab.
3. Optional: toggle the Verify Prompt on Launch button to enable or disable this option. When disabled, OneFuse will not verify that Prompt on Launch for Limit is defined on each Job Template prior to execution.
4. Optional: enter scm branch name using a mix of static and templated text in JSON formatted dictionary. [Allow Branch Override must be enabled at the Ansible Tower side.]
5. Optional: enter extra vars using a mix of static and templated text in JSON formatted dictionary.
6. Select Save or Update to apply the changes.

Manage deployments

To manage Ansible Tower deployments, go to Modules > Ansible Tower and scroll down to Deployments. See Managed object for more information.

Ansible Tower policy form