Ansible allows for good prompting with vars_prompt, Ansible Tower (really nice variable prompting there too), or just passing variables with "-e" to the ansible-playbook command line.
The pause module in ansible can also wait for human configuration, and vars_prompt can also ask questions midstream. Please don't skin the rabbits, they are cute and fluffy and want to hugged and petted and maybe called George. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Tiglath <[email protected]> wrote: > I am developing an application deployment program using Ansible. > > The task entails: > > Prompt for release number. > Prompt for environment: QA or prod. > Prompt for the target server. > > Copy data and configure it > > Prompt if app needs to be stopped and stop it if needed. > > Pause for admin to make links to files only they are allowed to do. > > Finalize configuration and start app. > > I want to use Ansible as much as possible, but I also want to use the best > tool for each job. So first I thought that at the end will have a mixture > of ansible and python and bash scripts. > > Can Ansible perform all of the steps above well enough to use only > Ansible, or is it usually a mix anyway? > > Initially I thought that perhaps I could get the user data with a script > and then pass target release and env to ansible as variables. > > Many ways to skin that rabbit but I hope to benefit from the experience of > sombody's similar effort, if any. > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/814b7f2b-ae1f-4e09-b602-c61506c6397f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/814b7f2b-ae1f-4e09-b602-c61506c6397f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgyo%3DSKBx8ZVOzSi2iPW7MBtOhCg0-52b5yn98C0u%3DS7eQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
