ara
ARA Records Ansible and makes it easier to understand and troubleshoot. (by ansible-community)
semaphore
Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell and other DevOps tools. (by semaphoreui)
| ara | semaphore | |
|---|---|---|
| 82 | 37 | |
| 1,923 | 11,827 | |
| 1.1% | 2.0% | |
| 6.9 | 9.9 | |
| 25 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| 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
semaphore
Posts with mentions or reviews of semaphore.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-21.
- Semaphore UI: Modern UI/API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell
- Semaphore UI – Modern UI and Powerful API for Ansible, Terraform
- Server management software (patching,...)
- Ansible errors?
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Ansible-Semaphore vs Ansible AWX
I've been trying Ansible AWX and Ansible Semaphore. (Ansible WebUIs)
- ansible-semaphore/semaphore: Modern UI for Ansible
- Self-hosted tool for documenting and creating procedures/workflows
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gans - Git+Ansible: watch git repo for changes and run only changed playbooks
So you basically rebuilt Ansible Semaphore?
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Minimalist self hosted apps
Semaphore - CI/CD for Ansible
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What is the best Ansible Frontend for a network engineer?
I also tested ansible-semaphore which definitly goes into the right direction and would be perfect but I encountered some issues ( here and here ) which were a showstopper to me.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ara and semaphore 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.
foreman-ansible-modules - Ansible modules for interacting with the Foreman API and various plugin APIs such as Katello
Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts
django-celery - Old Celery integration project for Django
awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖