tower_workflow_launch – Run a workflow in Ansible Tower

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

• Launch an Ansible Tower workflows. See https://www.ansible.com/tower for an overview.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
extra_vars -		Any extra vars required to launch the job.
timeout -		If waiting for the workflow to complete this will abort after this amount of seconds
tower_config_file path		Path to the Tower config file.
tower_host string		URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password string		Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username string		Username for your Tower instance.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether to allow insecure connections to Tower. If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. aliases: tower_verify_ssl
wait boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Wait for the workflow to complete.
workflow_template - / required		The name of the workflow template to 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 workflow
  tower_workflow_launch:
    workflow_template: "Test Workflow"
  delegate_to: localhost
  run_once: true
  register: workflow_results

- name: Launch a Workflow with parameters without waiting
  tower_workflow_launch:
    workflow_template: "Test workflow"
    extra_vars: "---
my: var"
    wait: False
  delegate_to: localhost
  run_once: true
  register: workflow_task_info

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
job_info dictionary	If workflow launched	dictionary containing information about the workflow executed
tower_version string	If connection to Tower works	The version of Tower we connected to Sample: 3.4.0

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• John Westcott IV (@john-westcott-iv)

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