One more item I will add .. in our Customize step of our workflow we do create an in-memory inventory with the new machine name so the steps in that lengthy process have an inventory to work on.
-- Walter Rowe, Chief Infrastructure Services walter.r...@nist.gov Office of Information Systems Mgmt National Institute of Standards and Technology US Department of Commerce On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 7:43:24 AM UTC-4 Walter Rowe wrote: > The "secret" to any good provisioning workflow is to parameterize > EVERYTHING. We feed user specifications from a ServiceNow request into our > Ansible Tower workflow. These specifications include what network, what AD > OU to deposit the new computer object we create, what function the server > will provide, what OS and version (windows 2016, windows 2019, ubuntu 20, > ubuntu22, redhat8, rocky8, debian10, debian11, etc), AWS or VMware, etc. > Our playbooks in ansible tower use most of these parameters from the > ServiceNow request as keys into dictionaries or as indicators of specific > vars files to import that have detailed specifications in YAML format we > can use to do all our work for provisioning. We can add new operating > system versions, new cloud service providers, new machine purposes and > describe all of these in our vars files and parameters from ServiceNow. We > have to make few if any changes to the actual playbooks. Even attached > storage is described in a JSON list that cleverly has all the disks > associated with each machine type for both Windows and Linux. A json_query > lets us pull out the records we need from the JSON list. > -- > Walter Rowe, Chief > Infrastructure Services > walte...@nist.gov > > Office of Information Systems Mgmt > National Institute of Standards and Technology > US Department of Commerce > > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 7:30:28 AM UTC-4 Walter Rowe wrote: > >> You don't need the machine added to an inventory and you don't need >> ansible tower callbacks. The vmware_guest module doesn't require either >> one. You do need to know the name of the new machine in a variable. >> >> We have a very elaborate ServiceNow -> Ansible Tower request and deliver >> workflow. We create the VMs (or EC2s in AWS), then create the DNS record, >> then do OS level machine customization. >> >> Email be directly and I can set up a TEAMS call to show you our playbook >> for creating a machine in VMware. >> >> [image: ASP-Workflow-Concept.png] >> >> On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 3:28:03 PM UTC-4 ehi...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Sounds like good use of Tower callback function. That way Tower does not >>> have to know anything about the new host. Just be sure the windows image is >>> configure for ansible, and then use either a cloud_init or or a first run >>> script to execute the callback. >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 12:18 PM Wei-Yen Tan <weiye...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> You can use add_host to the playbook that generates In memory hosts >>>> during the execution run >>>> >>>> Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* 'Nicholas Branson' via Ansible Project < >>>> ansible...@googlegroups.com> >>>> *Sent:* Friday, July 29, 2022 10:31:11 PM >>>> *To:* Ansible Project <ansible...@googlegroups.com> >>>> *Subject:* [ansible-project] Deploying Windows Server using Ansible >>>> Tower >>>> >>>> Ansible Newbie Calling... >>>> >>>> We have Ansible Tower and Satellite. >>>> >>>> I've been asked to look at Deploying Windows Server using Ansible Tower. >>>> >>>> I've created a win2019-tmp (template) in VMware >>>> >>>> Now I need to look at creating a Role playbook to deploy a Windows >>>> system in VMware. >>>> >>>> I've made a start on the main.yml and vars.yml files but I am not sure >>>> they will run on my new pipeline yet. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to check if the pipeline is ready to test playbooks on ? >>>> >>>> Also, since I will be deploying a Windows Server that has not been >>>> created yet, how can I put any info in the Ansible Tower Template >>>> Inventory >>>> area if it does not exist? >>>> >>>> I hope someone can help me with Windows deployements using Ansible. 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