Ever find yourself wishing you could review the output from a playbook you ran a few weeks ago?
... Well, now you can!
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ansibank is a drop-in replacement for ansible-playbook that preserves your playbook output.
ansibank streams your ansible-playbook output as you would expect, while writing it to a local SQLite
database upon completion. AWX/Tower are nifty because they store playbook output for later review -
this project seeks to CLI-ify output preservation in a way that is closer to typical ansible-playbook usage.
Simply clone this repository and run go install .. Ansibank can then be accessed via ansibank.
Run your playbook as you would ansible-playbook, but replaced with ansibank.
For example:
ansible-playbook -e SOME_VAR=test my-playbook.yml
Would become:
ansibank -e SOME_VAR=test my-playbook.yml
The only caveat is that the code currently assumes your playbook path is the last argument to ansibank.
Note that the playbook path, as with ansible-playbook, does not need to be an absolute path.
Run ansibank list from the directory containing your database and select the desired playbook run.
- Currently, playbook runs are identified by the playbook path (realpathed). If you move your playbook to
a different location, it would be helpful to be able to reflect that in the database. The thought is to
provide a
movecommand here. - The Ansibank DB is created in the directory from where you run
ansibank, with the nameansibank-db. Making this configurable would be nice.