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ARA Records Ansible and makes it easier to understand and troubleshoot. (by ansible-community)
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Using ELK to Build a Fact Search Engine and Inventory CMDB for Ansible Tower (by harrytruman)
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| ara | elk-ansible | |
|---|---|---|
| 82 | 3 | |
| 1,793 | 43 | |
| 1.2% | - | |
| 6.8 | 2.4 | |
| about 1 month ago | 9 months ago | |
| Python | YAML | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ara
Posts with mentions or reviews of ara.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
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With what should I use ansbile?
Look into AWX as an alternative to Tower. If you just want better reporting on runs, check out ARA or callback plugins.
- Show HN: ARA Records Ansible and makes it easier to understand and troubleshoot
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Ansible-Semaphore vs Ansible AWX
Also worth considering is ARA for playbook reporting, and then whatever you want for orchestration (Jenkins, Azure Devops, Rundeck, etc).
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Zabbix to monitor ansible
Why not use ara?
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How would I get a list of IP addresses of failed hosts and details?
For general recording of playbook activity with a web dashboard, ARA works really well.
- Planning on writing a callback plugin - is there a unique variable to identify a particular play being run?
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A way to log which user excuted a playbook
If you don’t want any UI / access control then you can also look at ARA - https://ara.recordsansible.org This works as a callback plugin to capture the job run data.
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Benchmarking ansible-core 2.11 vs 2.14 and python 3.9 vs 3.11 along with ara's database backends
I'm not sure how to interpret running 100 debug messages (https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/blob/master/tests/integration/benchmark_tasks.yaml) into real life performance. Mitogen's Benchmark used either 100 times a "hostname" command on the target machine (https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen/blob/master/tests/ansible/bench/loop-100-items.yml) or running the DebOps project (https://github.com/debops/debops-playbooks/blob/master/playbooks/common.yml) for some sorta real-world module usage.
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The Bullhorn #92 (Ansible Newsletter)
Reach out on Mastodon or see this issue on GitHub.
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Best options for monitoring Ansible deployment times
There has been discussions about a prometheus exporter for monitoring, metrics and eventually fancy graphs in grafana but work on this has not started yet: https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/177
elk-ansible
Posts with mentions or reviews of elk-ansible.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-12.
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How to create a Custom Dashboard on Ansible Tower
Tower isn't quite meant to be a visualization tool. Others have mentioned Grafana/Prometheus, and personally, I'm a huge fan of using ELK for this sort of thing. I dump Tower and network/server logs into Elastic to build an infra search engine as the base for monitoring/alerting and self-remediation.
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How to use the output of a command (a hosts list) to execute a task or tasks in these resulted hosts.
https://github.com/harrytruman/elk-ansible/blob/master/search.yml#L39
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Recap info at scale, any better roll up views or logging options? 40K hosts ;)
On a high level, here are the super basics that I think about when planning for huge networks, and for the inevitable performance testing you'll be doing. And of course, to actually figure out wtf is actually happening at such massive scales, my trusty ELK clusters have never failed me! But I genuinely commiserate with you about the pain and suffering that comes with sifting through millions of lines of logs to find...whatever you're looking for.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ara and elk-ansible you can also consider the following projects:
awx - AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
semaphore - Modern UI for Ansible
CIS-Ubuntu-20.04-Ansible - Ansible Role to Automate CIS v1.1.0 Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS Remediation
foreman-ansible-modules - Ansible modules for interacting with the Foreman API and various plugin APIs such as Katello
django-cms - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
drf-flex-fields - Dynamically set fields and expand nested resources in Django REST Framework serializers.
django-celery - Old Celery integration project for Django
django-restql - Turn your API made with Django REST Framework(DRF) into a GraphQL like API.
ansible-tidy - tidy role
molecule - Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible content: collections, playbooks and roles
ara-web - Stateless web client for the ARA Records Ansible API.