Ah didn't realise, thanks Andrew. On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:53:25 UTC+1, Andrew Latham wrote: > > AWX has a mailing list at AWX Project <[email protected] > <javascript:>> > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Bobby Brockway <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Bump >> >> >> On Thursday, 12 October 2017 15:49:35 UTC+1, Bobby Brockway wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been playing with AWX in a POC environment but I'm having trouble >>> working out the best way to lay out our inventories, jobs and workflows. >>> The Best Practices >>> <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/best_practices.html> >>> guide >>> in the docs isn't exactly extensive so hopefully someone here will be able >>> to help. >>> >>> We've already started putting roles into their own Galaxy-style >>> repositories, for example: >>> >>> . >>> |-- defaults >>> | `-- main.yml >>> |-- files >>> |-- handlers >>> | `-- main.yml >>> |-- meta >>> | `-- main.yml >>> |-- README.md >>> |-- tasks >>> | `-- main.yml >>> |-- templates >>> |-- tests >>> | |-- inventory >>> | `-- test.yml >>> `-- vars >>> `-- main.yml >>> >>> >>> Then we've been using Git submodules to reference these in the >>> individual jobs like so: >>> >>> . >>> |-- action_plugins >>> | `-- plugin.py >>> |-- ansible.cfg >>> |-- collector.yml >>> |-- group_vars >>> | |-- all.yml >>> | |-- dev.yml >>> | `-- prod.yml >>> |-- inventories >>> | |-- dev.ini >>> | `-- prod.ini >>> |-- library >>> | `-- module.py >>> |-- playbook.yml >>> |-- roles >>> | |-- role1 (Git submodule) >>> | `-- role2 (Git submodule) >>> `-- README.md >>> >>> >>> For AWX I know we'll have to replace the Git submodules with a >>> requirements.yml file but my main question is around Workflow Templates. >>> Specifically, with Workflow Templates available, what is the point of >>> having Job Templates at all? Why aren't they just "Role Templates". With >>> vanilla Ansible it makes sense to have a "job" called "Provision Web >>> Server" for instance that pulls down the Java role, then the Tomcat role, >>> then whatever else you need, but with Workflow Templates doesn't it just do >>> that all for you? Wouldn't you just have a "Provision Web Server" Workflow >>> Template that installs the Java "job" then the "tomcat" job and then >>> whatever else you need, or am I missing a major point here? >>> >>> How are you guys setting your jobs and workflows up? >>> >>> My second question is around inventories. I can see these getting very >>> messy very quickly with nests of groups and variables all over the place, >>> especially if you have multiple teams creating different jobs all with >>> their own variable names and ideas on how servers should be grouped for >>> their stuff to be deployed successfully. How do you set up your >>> inventories? Do you split them out by environment? By team? By job even? Do >>> you have multiple inventories for different purposes, sometimes with the >>> same server in a number of different ones? >>> >>> I realise there's no cut-and-dry "best" way to do this yet but would be >>> interested to hear about what you guys are already doing or planning to do! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Bobby >>> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/49964350-e720-4a13-a25a-89aef20dfbec%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/49964350-e720-4a13-a25a-89aef20dfbec%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > - Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] <javascript:> > http://lathama.com <http://lathama.org> - >
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