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https://github.com/ansible/awx#readme is also helpful if one needs "runbook" behavior to allow arbitrary audiences to run playbooks without the headache of installing something and dealing with local cred management. Interestingly, it also offers a "callback" system to allow machines to request a playbook upon themselves in cases where ansible-pull isn't appropriate/helpful

How does this compare to Ansible, and AWX? https://github.com/ansible/awx

I agree with you. Most my packages are around ~100 stars, and I'm met with a lot of respect and appreciation.[1][2] My library for Correlation-IDs in Django[3] got implemented by AWX, which also was a nice experience![4] Maybe it is the Django/FastAPI community, but "you'll get a load of entitled users" is straight up not true in my experience. [1] https://github.com/Intility/fastapi-azure-auth/issues/24 [2] https://github.com/Intility/fastapi-azure-auth/issues/39 [3] https://github.com/snok/django-guid [4] https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/9332 (Bonus Correlation-ID package for Starlette/FastAPI: https://github.com/snok/asgi-correlation-id )

Reading through their website (https://ansible-semaphore.com/), it seems like it comes down to responsive UI with material design, and being written in Go. It's not clear what this offers over Ansible AWX (https://github.com/ansible/awx), which is the traditional Ansible UI.

For reference, in Ansible land the two approaches to this would be https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm... or https://github.com/ansible/awx (upstream project of Ansible Tower)

For periodic admin tasks, you might consider giving Ansible AWX a try (https://github.com/ansible/awx). It is a web interface for managing Ansible playbooks, and lets you configure jobs that another user can then execute and provide parameters. It keeps track of all run results, has a fair number of supported integrations for notifications, and can schedule runs. I work for Red Hat, and AWX is the upstream community project for Ansible Tower, which we provide support for. AWX is one of our newer open source projects (we open sourced it after acquiring Ansible), so you'll sometimes have better luck searching for information on "Ansible Tower".

You can also get Tower's functionality with the free version called AWX, although not as polished. https://github.com/ansible/awx

Recent example: they open sourced Ansible Tower. They must've lost quite a few sales, but even after only a few months community contributions started flowing in.[1] Red Hat really believes in the power of open source. It must be a great place to work at. [1]: https://github.com/ansible/awx I wish more companies had that kind of courage.

Quick links: - Github Project: https://github.com/ansible/awx - Project FAQ: https://www.ansible.com/awx-project-faq - Demo Video (10min): https://www.ansible.com/tower-demo - Remove angry potato logo: https://github.com/nanobeep/awx-logos I do the curation for the 'Ansible & Friends' newsletter and we've been following this closely for a few months... If you're interested in alternatives to Tower/AWX, see our listing in issue 64: https://hvops.com/news/ansible/64 Kudos to Jeff, he's quite prolific in the community. We've highlighted him recently in the "Community Heroes" section: https://hvops.com/news/ansible/64 And in our September issue, we had to give Jeff his own section because there were just too many great articles he had put out: https://hvops.com/news/ansible/67 (Full disclosure: Ansible Inc hired me a few years ago to update a

The second sentence on that repository's readme is > To install AWX, please view the Install guide. which links to an installation guide[0] with information on setting it up with OpenShift or Docker. I'm not sure what part isn't clear. [0]: https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md

Seems like it was made open source very very recently: https://github.com/ansible/awx/commit/9524a5c8605e7feb6ce9ad...