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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

You're reading from   Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803244884
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean Sullivan Sean Sullivan
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Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Ansible Automation Platform Up and Running
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ansible Automation Platform 4. Chapter 3: Installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift 5. Chapter 4: Configuring Settings and Authentication 6. Part 2: Configuring AAP
7. Chapter 5: Configuring the Basics after Installation 8. Chapter 6: Configuring Role-Based Access Control 9. Chapter 7: Creating Inventory, and Other Inventory Pieces 10. Chapter 8: Creating Execution Environments 11. Chapter 9: Automation Hub Management 12. Chapter 10: Creating Job Templates and Workflows 13. Part 3: Extending Ansible Tower
14. Chapter 11: Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs 15. Chapter 12: Using CI/CD to Interact with Automation Controller 16. Chapter 13: Integration with Other Services 17. Chapter 14: Automating at Scale with Automation Mesh 18. Chapter 15: Using Automation Services Catalog 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Surveys for job templates and workflows, and how to use them

Surveys are a way to capture user input for job templates and workflows. Each question has a set variable that is populated for use by playbooks. This is also useful when users are using the API, roles, or modules. Surveys allow users to input fields as extra variables into the job. When using only surveys this limits users to only the extra variables defined in the survey. Those fields must match the data type set in the survey, which adds a level of data validation. With that capability in mind, the next section reviews how to define surveys.

Survey definitions

The top-level options for surveys in modules and roles for job templates and workflows are the following (survey_spec):

  • name: The name of the survey – this does not show up in the GUI.
  • description: The description of the survey – this does not show up in the GUI.
  • spec: A list of survey questions.

All three of these are required...

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