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bigpanda - Notify BigPanda about deployments

New in version 1.8.

Synopsis

  • Notify BigPanda when deployments start and end (successfully or not). Returns a deployment object containing all the parameters for future module calls.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
component
 yes
The name of the component being deployed. Ex: billing

aliases: name
description
 no
Free text description of the deployment.
env
 no
The environment name, typically 'production', 'staging', etc.
hosts
 no machine's hostname
Name of affected host name. Can be a list.

aliases: host
owner
 no
The person responsible for the deployment.
state
 yes
  • started
  • finished
  • failed
State of the deployment.
token
 yes
API token.
url
 no https://api.bigpanda.io
Base URL of the API server.
validate_certs
 no yes
  • yes
  • no
If no, SSL certificates for the target url will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
version
 yes
The deployment version.

Examples

- bigpanda:
    component: myapp
    version: '1.3'
    token: '{{ bigpanda_token }}'
    state: started

- bigpanda:
    component: myapp
    version: '1.3'
    token: '{{ bigpanda_token }}'
    state: finished

# If outside servers aren't reachable from your machine, use delegate_to and override hosts:
- bigpanda:
    component: myapp
    version: '1.3'
    token: '{{ bigpanda_token }}'
    hosts: '{{ ansible_hostname }}'
    state: started
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: deployment

- bigpanda:
    component: '{{ deployment.component }}'
    version: '{{ deployment.version }}'
    token: '{{ deployment.token }}'
    state: finished
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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