Hello folks, I am trying to setup the servicenow and ansible awx integration can any one help me.
I have developers snow instance and awx installed on the machine . On Mon, 1 Aug, 2022, 6:01 pm Wei-Yen Tan, <weiyen....@gmail.com> wrote: > Ahh yes. So as I suggested. You are using what I suggested to the op > before > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > ------------------------------ > *From:* 'Walter Rowe' via Ansible Project < > ansible-project@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 2, 2022 12:25:30 AM > *To:* Ansible Project <ansible-project@googlegroups.com> > *Subject:* Re: [ansible-project] Deploying Windows Server using Ansible > Tower > > Yes. We use TWO plays in a playbook. The first play uses an extra_var of > the hostname to create a new host group. The second play scopes its > inventory to that host group. > > In our workflow the new machines' name comes in as an extra var called > vm_guest_name. > > ## > > *## play 1: add new machine to inventory *## > - name: Add new host to playbook inventory > hosts: localhost > gather_facts: no > tasks: > > # add our new host to the inventory for this play > > > > > * - name: add {{ vm_guest_name | lower }} add_host: name: > "{{ vm_guest_name | lower }}" group: newvm * > ## > > *## play 2: customize new machine *## > - name: "Customize Server - Linux - Set Time Zone, Hostname, Join AD" > gather_facts: no > > * hosts: newvm * become: yes > > -- > Walter Rowe, Chief > Infrastructure Services > Office of Information Systems Management > National Institute of Standards and Technology > United States Department of Commerce > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 8:05:01 AM UTC-4 weiye...@gmail.com wrote: > > It's that the add_host directive? > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > ------------------------------ > *From:* 'Walter Rowe' via Ansible Project <ansible...@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Monday, August 1, 2022 11:58:48 PM > *To:* Ansible Project <ansible...@googlegroups.com> > *Subject:* Re: [ansible-project] Deploying Windows Server using Ansible > Tower > > 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 > walte...@nist.gov > > Office of Information Systems Mgmt > National Institute of Standards and Technology > US Department of Commerce > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 7:43:24 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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