Ansible Tower Provisioning Callbacks

One of Tower’s big selling points is the RESTful API. This allows systems to request certain templates to run against themselves from Tower. I leverage this on workstations with a systemd service and timer. Each workstation waits a predetermined time after boot and then does an API call to Tower. Tower then runs the workstation provision template against the system that requested it. To enable callbacks, just check “Allow Provisioning Callbacks....

August 23, 2017 · 1 min · 148 words · John Hooks