did you find this ? or how you are managing it, i am interested too. On Friday, 28 February 2014 02:00:51 UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm evaluating Ansible Tower as a way to manage configuration and > deployment of applications. > > I've built a small application with an interface to the REST API to manage > some of the more complicated steps in the deployment process (for example, > logging a 'build' in the system upon a successful Jenkins job, and tracking > its deployment to various environments), and there is one piece of the > puzzle I can't figure out. > > We're using playbooks and templates to manage config files on servers in > what seems to be a pretty standard way, with a 'project' set up for a > branch of our playbooks git repository, but it doesn't look like there is a > way of picking a particular git revision when executing a job. It would be > really nice to, when triggering a job template, tell it which git commit > (or tag) we want it to use, since config changes associated with a > particular build can best be tracked by git commit, and not simply > whatever's been pushed to a particular branch. One reason for this is, lets > say we have changes to group_vars/prod that need to go out on the next > push. If those changes were simply pushed to the prod branch of our > repository in anticipation of the push, any new production servers brought > up before the actual deployment process happened (that is, servers that > would have the playbook executed on them between the commit and the actual > deployment) would be erroneously getting the new settings. And I'm hoping > to avoid complicating the otherwise push-button deployment process with a > merge-to-a-git-branch step. > > Has anyone here dealt with this sort of use case? Is there a way around it? > > > > *tl;dr: Can I choose a specific scm tag or revision a job will run its > playbooks from in Ansible Tower?* >
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