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Trigger AWX and Ansible Automation Platform Controller resources

v24.6.1 Latest version

Trigger AWX and Ansible Automation Platform Controller resources

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Trigger AWX and Ansible Automation Platform Controller resources

Trigger resource on AWX or Ansible Automation Platform Controller

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Trigger AWX and Ansible Automation Platform Controller resources

uses: fitbeard/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in fitbeard/action-trigger-awx

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Github action for AWX and Ansible Automation Platform Controller resource triggering

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This Github action aims to interact with AWX or Ansible Automation Platform Controller.

It connects to an AWX or Ansible Automation Platform Controller server and launches a job or workflow_job template or updates project.

Note

For best compatibility and if it possible always use the identical version of this action to your installed AWX version.

Usage

See action.yml

Exaples

  awx-examples:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: "Test AWX: Simple job template with GH step id to extract AWX job id for the next step"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        id: example_id
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: job_template
          resource_name: actions-awxkit-test

      - name: "Output AWX job id"
        run: |
          echo ${{ steps.example_id.outputs.job_id }}

      - name: "Test AWX: Simple job template - specify credentials"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: job_template
          resource_name: actions-awxkit-test
          credentials: "test-credential"

      - name: "Test AWX: Simple workflow template"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: workflow_job_template
          resource_name: actions-awxkit-workflow-test

      - name: "Test AWX: Project update"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: project
          resource_name: ansible-project

      - name: "Test AWX: Inventory Source update"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: inventory_source
          resource_name: inventory-source-name

      - name: "Test AWX: Random options job template 1"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: job_template
          resource_name: actions-awxkit-test3
          limit: "localhost-0*"
          extra_vars: '{"test": 1, "test2": "this variable"}'
          timeout: 300

      - name: "Test AWX: Random options job template 2"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: job_template
          resource_name: actions-awxkit-test3
          limit: "localhost-0*"
          extra_vars: '{"test": 1, "test2": "this variable"}'
          branch: "test/awxkit_action_poc"
          inventory: localhost-awxkit-test
          tags: "1,two,o_0"
          skip_tags: "nonsense"

      - name: "Test AWX: Simple job template without waiting"
        uses: fitbeard/[email protected]
        with:
          controller_host: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_HOST }}
          controller_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
          resource_type: job_template
          resource_name: actions-awxkit-test2
          monitor: "false"