How Does Ansible Automation Platform Invoke The "ansible-playbook" Command When A Job Template Is Launched?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Issue

  • How Does Ansible Automation Platform Invoke The ansible-playbook Command When A Job Template Is Launched?

Resolution

  • Ansible Tower invokes the ansible-playbook command as a built-in awx user, and you can see the information via API, /api/v2/jobs/N/.

    1) Login to Tower's API as the admin user.

    https://<TOWER_URL>/api/login/

    2) Access the API.

    https://<TOWER_URL>/api/v2/jobs/N/

    Where N is the job number which you want to see.

    3) Then you can see the details for the job execution.

    • "job_args": command line as a list
    • "job_cwd": working directory
    • "job_env": environment variables

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