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. (by ansible)
ara
ARA Records Ansible and makes it easier to understand and troubleshoot. (by ansible-community)
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| awx | ara | |
|---|---|---|
| 147 | 82 | |
| 13,386 | 1,790 | |
| 1.5% | 1.1% | |
| 9.8 | 6.8 | |
| 5 days ago | 24 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
awx
Posts with mentions or reviews of awx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
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The Bullhorn #124 (Ansible Newsletter)
AWX Project ↗
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Webhook notifications -> unable to save custom messages
However, when I try to add it is not allowing me to save nor it throws any error. I see one old pull request which seem to address this very issue but I find the issue still persists. https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8898
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AWX / cicso.nxos Module Help
I ran into that (or something very similar) a few days ago. For me, I made a new Execution environment and used this image rather than the 'latest' one: quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:23.5.0 and now mine works. ref: https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/14689
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The Bullhorn #119 (Ansible Newsletter)
@elibogomolnyi The EKS reconnect support AWX jobs can't tolerate the EKS scale out & possible fix.
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The Bullhorn #114 (Ansible Newsletter)
We're happy to announce that AWX Version 23.0.0 is now available! We're happy to announce that AWX Operator version 2.5.2 is now available!
- [homelab] I am confused with how 3rd-party GUIs interact with my Ansible server
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The Bullhorn #107 (Ansible Newsletter)
AWX Project ↗ AWX
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The Bullhorn #106 (Ansible Newsletter)
2023-07-11: AWX Office hours, 15:00 UTC
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External Semaphore/AWX installation?
You can install AWX in a docker-compose environment as well: https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/tools/docker-compose/README.md
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Server management software (patching,...)
There is a web UI for Ansible called AWX
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awx and ara you can also consider the following projects:
awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖
semaphore - Modern UI for Ansible
ansible-keepass - Ansible lookup plugin to fetch data from KeePass file
CIS-Ubuntu-20.04-Ansible - Ansible Role to Automate CIS v1.1.0 Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS Remediation
elk-ansible - Using ELK to Build a Fact Search Engine and Inventory CMDB for Ansible Tower
argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
foreman-ansible-modules - Ansible modules for interacting with the Foreman API and various plugin APIs such as Katello
awx-ee - An Ansible execution environment for AWX project
django-cms - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
drf-flex-fields - Dynamically set fields and expand nested resources in Django REST Framework serializers.