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Simple Web UI for infra management with Ansible playbooks https://polemarch.org (https://github.com/vstconsulting/polemarch) -- awx light? :-)

GitHub - vstconsulting/polemarch: Simple WEB gui for infrastructure management by ansible playbooks or modules. This is only mirror with bins in releases.

Simple WEB gui for infrastructure management by ansible playbooks or modules. This is only mirror with bins in releases. - GitHub - vstconsulting/polemarch: Simple WEB gui for infrastructure manage...
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Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄
Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄
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Interesting. Just a first impression here but they seem to be using subprocess and Popen to run Ansible. Which is a red flag imho because Ansible lib already has all you need to run Ansible from another software as a library.

Instead they've opted to execute subprocesses with Ansible. This is prone to errors, limited, slow and it also shows a potential lack of understanding of Ansible internals.
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JP Mens
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I'd only glanced at the shiny presentation; thanks for the heads up.
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JP Mens
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FWIW, I've just been directed at https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore (but have also not looked closer; I'll gladly listen to your comments. :-) )

GitHub - ansible-semaphore/semaphore: Modern UI for Ansible

Modern UI for Ansible. Contribute to ansible-semaphore/semaphore development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄
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Yet another case of just running the ansible commands.

https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore/blob/develop/lib/AnsiblePlaybook.go#L38

A decent implementation is basically the design of AWX. Use Ansible lib to execute plays, use Ansible callback plugin to process the output and do all this in async jobs like rq or celery for example. Anything else is just a poor man's Ansible UI.

semaphore/AnsiblePlaybook.go at develop · ansible-semaphore/semaphore

Modern UI for Ansible. Contribute to ansible-semaphore/semaphore development by creating an account on GitHub.
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JP Mens
JP Mens
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it seems nobody wants to integrate Ansible Runner which I looked at a while back https://jpmens.net/2020/02/28/dial-a-for-ansible-and-r-for-runner/

Dial A for Ansible and R for Runner

Ansible Runner is a Python library and utility which helps interfacing with Ansible playbook runs and also supports running ad-hoc commands and individual roles. It is used in AWX/Tower as the basi...
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Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄
Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄
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Why oh why does no one use the official ansible library to run Ansible plays?!

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/blob/devel/ansible_runner/runner.py#L7

ansible-runner/runner.py at devel · ansible/ansible-runner

A tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python mo...
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Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄
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This is making me want to write my own UI, with blackjack and ansible library!
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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that's also what I saw when I tried to write something that used ansible, and the exact reason why I decided to run the ansible command instead.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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ansible was installed systemwide, and sometimes there is a need to install a more recent version than the one in debian stable to be able to use their features.

Also, fixing versions in requirements.txt is pretty bad from a security point of view and is better avoided.

Anyway, if the authors of a library recommend not to use that library, I tend to read that as a strong hint that things will break in horribly to debug ways, and stay. away. from. it.

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