Pass user inputs to bash script via ansible

[Linux Study]

Hi All,

Is there way to pass user inputs to bash script via ansible?

Regards,

Abhi

[Alex Wanderley]

Hi,

One possible way would be using "vars_prompt" to request the user's input and then pass that variable on as a parameter to your script in a "shell/command" task.

Alex

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[Linux Study]

Bash script itself asking some questions. So how can we pass that answer via ansible?

Regards,

Abhi

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[Alex Wanderley]

Hi,

Take a look at Ansible's "expect" module.

It may give what you need...

Alex

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[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

How is the ansible playbook being run? command line? ansible automation platform?

Walter
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[Linux Study]

We are  executing via jenkins and it will call ansible tower to run playbook...

Regards,

Abhijit

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[Lee Thomas Stephen]

Hi Abhi,

I used 

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/expect_module.html

for a VPN script, I use.

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Lee

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[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

Since you are submitting the job via Jenkins and web services you can use a survey on the ansible tower workflow to define variables. The web services call can supply their values. Ansible Tower will provide these variables to your playbook(s) as extra_vars. Read the ansible tower api docs to see how they pass JSON into the API with these key:value pairs of variables and their values.

Walter
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[Linux Study]

But how can we pass this values to bash script on remote server?

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[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

Your ansible playbook can run the shell command and pass these vars as values on the command line.

- shell: "my_script {{ jenkins_var1 }} {{ jenkins_var2 }} {{ jenkins_var3 }}"

As I said they come into the playbook as ansible extra_vars. If your survey accepts values for these three vars and your Jenkins web services call provides them with values in JSON format "{ 'jenkins_var1': 'val1', 'jenkins_var2': 'val2', 'jenkins_var3': 'val3 }" then it all glues together. Read the documentation and learn the modules and ansible syntax.

Walter
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