Ansible Support

This module can have an optional minion-level configuration in /etc/salt/minion.d/ as follows:

ansible_timeout: 1200

The timeout is how many seconds Salt should wait for any Ansible module to respond.

class salt.modules.ansiblegate.AnsibleModuleCaller(resolver)

DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 1200

OPT_TIMEOUT_KEY = 'ansible_timeout'

call(module, *args, **kwargs)

Call an Ansible module by invoking it. :param module: the name of the module. :param args: Arguments to the module :param kwargs: keywords to the module :return:

class salt.modules.ansiblegate.AnsibleModuleResolver(opts)

This class is to resolve all available modules in Ansible.

get_modules_list(pattern=None)

Return module map references. :return:

install()

load_module(module)

Introspect Ansible module.

Parameters

module --

Returns

resolve()

salt.modules.ansiblegate.help(module=None, *args)

Display help on Ansible standard module.

Parameters

module --

Returns

salt.modules.ansiblegate.list_(pattern=None)

Lists available modules. :return:

salt.modules.ansiblegate.playbooks(playbook, rundir=None, check=False, diff=False, extra_vars=None, flush_cache=False, forks=5, inventory=None, limit=None, list_hosts=False, list_tags=False, list_tasks=False, module_path=None, skip_tags=None, start_at_task=None, syntax_check=False, tags=None, playbook_kwargs=None)

Run Ansible Playbooks

Parameters

• playbook -- Which playbook to run.

• rundir -- Directory to run ansible-playbook in. (Default: None)

• check -- don't make any changes; instead, try to predict some of the changes that may occur (Default: False)

• diff -- when changing (small) files and templates, show the differences in those files; works great with --check (default: False)

• extra_vars -- set additional variables as key=value or YAML/JSON, if filename prepend with @, (default: None)

• flush_cache -- clear the fact cache for every host in inventory (default: False)

• forks -- specify number of parallel processes to use (Default: 5)

• inventory -- specify inventory host path or comma separated host list. (Default: None) (Ansible's default is /etc/ansible/hosts)

• limit -- further limit selected hosts to an additional pattern (Default: None)

• list_hosts -- outputs a list of matching hosts; does not execute anything else (Default: False)

• list_tags -- list all available tags (Default: False)

• list_tasks -- list all tasks that would be executed (Default: False)

• module_path -- prepend colon-separated path(s) to module library. (Default: None)

• skip_tags -- only run plays and tasks whose tags do not match these values (Default: False)

• start_at_task -- start the playbook at the task matching this name (Default: None)

• tags -- only run plays and tasks tagged with these values (Default: None)

Param

syntax_check: perform a syntax check on the playbook, but do not execute it (Default: False)

Returns

Playbook return

CLI Example:

salt 'ansiblehost'  ansible.playbook playbook=/srv/playbooks/play.yml