https://github.com/ron7/ansible-boy

AnsibleBoy aims to use the Asnible `facts` as data, which can then be visualized in a table format
https://github.com/ron7/ansible-boy

ansible ansible-playbook ansible-plays ansibletower frontend tower

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AnsibleBoy aims to use the Asnible `facts` as data, which can then be visualized in a table format

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ron7/ansible-boy
• Owner: ron7
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2021-04-29T13:56:00.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-31T10:25:58.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-20T13:43:13.744Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: ansible, ansible-playbook, ansible-plays, ansibletower, frontend, tower
• Language: PHP
• Homepage:
• Size: 964 KB
• Stars: 23
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# AnsibleBoy - Ansible Frontend Hub

About

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AnsibleBoy aims to use the Ansible `facts` as data, which can then be visualized as a table

![](/assets/ansibleBoyScreen1.png?raw=true "Screenshot")

![](/assets/ansibleBoyScreen2.png?raw=true "Screenshot")

ToDo

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(note that this project is very fresh)

- Ability to export in CSV or HTML

- Extend the data

- Add options to see each host separately

- Add custom facts

- Add docker-compose setup

- Others

How to install

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- needs PHP installed (7.4 recommended)

- needs ansible installed

- assumes that your ansible setup utilizes ssh-keys to login to the hosts

This is a straight forward PHP setup, so clone the repo directly in a `web` folder.

Setup `.env` file from the example `.example.env` one

Create a Database with a user.

Import the `.db_users_init` into the DB, which will create the `users` table, and add the initial `admin` user. TODO: this should be automated in the code, and not be a manual step.

Login to `/admin` with user: `admin` and pass `admin`. Make sure to change these.

Once in the Users menu, click the red button to `Reset DB Table Servers`, which recreates the table every time. So be careful with it.

In `.env` you would need to setup the absolute paths to your`inventry` file, and `ansible.cfg` files, so the `.cron` can use both of these files to connect to your inventory and pull the `facts`.

You can also use real time environment variables like:

```shell

ANSIBLEBOY_INVENTORY=/path/to/hosts ANSIBLEBOY_CFG=/path/to/ansible.cfg  ./.cron

```

in case you need to do this multiple times.

Then set that cron to to run at the interval you want to gather new `facts` from your fleet.