ARA Records Ansible

ARA Records Ansible playbook runs and makes the recorded data available and intuitive for users and systems.

The project provides several distinct components in order to make this happen:

• An API server for sending and querying data relative to playbook execution results
• An API client library for communicating with the API
• An Ansible callback plugin to record events as they happen throughout the execution
• An Ansible action module to associate arbitrary key/values to your playbook reports

Quickstart

Here's how you can get started from scratch with default settings:

# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv ~/.ara/venv

# Install Ansible and the required ARA projects
~/.ara/venv/bin/pip install ansible
~/.ara/venv/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/openstack/ara@feature/1.0

# Tell Ansible to use the ARA callback plugin
# "python -m ara.plugins" provides the path to the ARA plugins directory
export ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS="$(~/.ara/venv/bin/python -m ara.plugins)/callback"

# Run your playbook as your normally would
~/.ara/venv/bin/ansible-playbook playbook.yml

The data will be saved in real time throughout the execution of the Ansible playbook.

What happens behind the scenes is that the ARA Ansible callback plugin used the built-in API client to send the data to the API which then saved it to a database located by default at ~/.ara/server/ansible.sqlite.

You're now ready to start poking at the API with the built-in API clients !

If you'd like to have the ARA web reporting interface, take a look at ara-web.

Documentation

Documentation for installing, configuring, running and using ara is available on readthedocs.io.

Community and getting help

You can chat with the ARA community on Slack and IRC. The two are transparently bridged with teamchat which broadcasts messages from one platform to the other.

In addition, you can also find ARA on Twitter: @ARecordsAnsible

IRC

• Server: irc.freenode.net
• Channel: #ara

Slack

• https://arecordsansible.slack.com
• Join with the Slack invitation

Development

TL;DR: Using tox is convenient for the time being:

# Retrieve the source
git clone https://github.com/openstack/ara
cd ara
git checkout feature/1.0

# Install tox from pip or from your distro packages
pip install tox

# Run test server -> http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/
tox -e runserver

# Run actual tests or get coverage
tox -e linters
tox -e py3
tox -e cover

# Build docs
tox -e docs

Contributors

See contributors on GitHub.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.

ARA Records Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

ARA Records Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with ARA Records Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.