Creating Job Templates and Workflows
Before now, this book has covered many different parts of the Automation controller, inventories, credentials, execution environments, and collections. These are all pieces that go into a job template. Job templates are what the Automation controller uses to run Ansible playbooks. Workflows are job templates linked together in a logical flow. This chapter will explore the details of how to create projects that the job templates use, these job templates themselves, how to create workflows, and the basics of using them.
This chapter will also cover how to incorporate playbooks and code into the Automation controller using projects, create job templates, use surveys in job templates and workflows, create workflows, and use instance groups.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Creating projects
- Creating job templates
- Surveys for job templates and workflows, and how to use them
- Creating workflows...
