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awx.awx.tower_job_launch – Launch an Ansible Job.

Note

This plugin is part of the awx.awx collection (version 14.1.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install awx.awx.

To use it in a playbook, specify: awx.awx.tower_job_launch.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
credential_passwords
dictionary
Passwords for credentials which are set to prompt on launch
credentials
list / elements=string
Credential to use for job, only used if prompt for credential is set.

aliases: credential
diff_mode
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Show the changes made by Ansible tasks where supported
extra_vars
dictionary
extra_vars to use for the Job Template.
ask_extra_vars needs to be set to True via tower_job_template module when creating the Job Template.
inventory
string
Inventory to use for the job, only used if prompt for inventory is set.
job_type
string
    Choices:
  • run
  • check
Job_type to use for the job, only used if prompt for job_type is set.
limit
string
Limit to use for the job_template.
name
string / required
Name of the job template to use.

aliases: job_template
scm_branch
string
A specific of the SCM project to run the template on.
This is only applicable if your project allows for branch override.
skip_tags
list / elements=string
Specific tags to skip from the playbook.
tags
list / elements=string
Specific tags to use for from playbook.
tower_config_file
path
Path to the Tower or AWX config file.
If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered.
tower_host
string
URL to your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_HOST and then config files
If value not specified by any means, the value of 127.0.0.1 will be used
tower_oauthtoken
raw
added in 3.7 of awx.awx
The Tower OAuth token to use.
This value can be in one of two formats.
A string which is the token itself. (i.e. bqV5txm97wqJqtkxlMkhQz0pKhRMMX)
A dictionary structure as returned by the tower_token module.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_OAUTH_TOKEN and then config files
tower_password
string
Password for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_PASSWORD and then config files
tower_username
string
Username for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_USERNAME and then config files
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether to allow insecure connections to Tower or AWX.
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_VERIFY_SSL and then config files

aliases: tower_verify_ssl
verbosity
integer
    Choices:
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Verbosity level for this job run

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- name: Launch a job
  tower_job_launch:
    job_template: "My Job Template"
  register: job

- name: Launch a job template with extra_vars on remote Tower instance
  tower_job_launch:
    job_template: "My Job Template"
    extra_vars:
      var1: "My First Variable"
      var2: "My Second Variable"
      var3: "My Third Variable"
    job_type: run

- name: Launch a job with inventory and credential
  tower_job_launch:
    job_template: "My Job Template"
    inventory: "My Inventory"
    credential: "My Credential"
  register: job
- name: Wait for job max 120s
  tower_job_wait:
    job_id: "{{ job.id }}"
    timeout: 120

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
id
integer
success
job id of the newly launched job

Sample:
86
status
string
success
status of newly launched job

Sample:
pending


Authors

  • Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/awx/awx/tower_job_launch_module.html