ansibank

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ansibank

Ever find yourself wishing you could review the output from a playbook you ran a few weeks ago?

... Well, now you can!

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Description

ansibank is a drop-in replacement for ansible-playbook that preserves your playbook output.

ansibank streams your ansible-playbook output as you would expect, while writing it to a local SQLite database upon completion. AWX/Tower are nifty because they store playbook output for later review - this project seeks to CLI-ify output preservation in a way that is closer to typical ansible-playbook usage.

Usage

Build

Simply clone this repository and run go install .. Ansibank can then be accessed via ansibank.

Running Playbook

Run your playbook as you would ansible-playbook, but replaced with ansibank.

For example:

ansible-playbook -e SOME_VAR=test my-playbook.yml

Would become:

ansibank -e SOME_VAR=test my-playbook.yml

The only caveat is that the code currently assumes your playbook path is the last argument to ansibank. Note that the playbook path, as with ansible-playbook, does not need to be an absolute path.

Viewing Output

Run ansibank list from the directory containing your database and select the desired playbook run.

TODO

• Currently, playbook runs are identified by the playbook path (realpathed). If you move your playbook to a different location, it would be helpful to be able to reflect that in the database. The thought is to provide a move command here.
• The Ansibank DB is created in the directory from where you run ansibank, with the name ansibank-db. Making this configurable would be nice.