How to get details about a user running an Ansible Tower job

[Dmitrii M]

Hi all,

I've two questions:

1) Is there a way to know the details about a user who runs playbooks (job template/workflow)? I'd propose that module "tower_user" might do that, it just can be extended with some output like it does "stat" module.

## playbook.yml

- tower_user:
    username: jobowner
  register: jobowner_stat

- debug:
    msg: |
      Username: {{ jobowner_stat.username }}
      Email: {{ jobowner_stat.email }}
      Is_superuser: {{ jobowner_stat.superuser }}
      First name: {{ jobowner_stat.first_name }}
      Last name: {{ jobowner_stat.last_name }}

Or if there is something already implemented, it would be great to know about this.

2) How can I know that a playbook is run by Ansible Tower? For example, I'm writing a playbook on a local machine and I need to run additional tasks like "Get the owner of a job which runs the playbook" above.

Thank you,

Dmitrii

[Cade Lambert]

Tower returns a handful of variables containing info about a job execution:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/job_templates.html

• tower_job_id: The Job ID for this job run
• tower_job_launch_type: The description to indicate how the job was started:
  • manual: Job was started manually by a user.
  • relaunch: Job was started via relaunch.
  • callback: Job was started via host callback.
  • scheduled: Job was started from a schedule.
  • dependency: Job was started as a dependency of another job.
  • workflow: Job was started from a workflow job.
  • sync: Job was started from a project sync.
  • scm: Job was created as an Inventory SCM sync.
  • tower_job_template_id: The Job Template ID that this job run uses
• tower_job_template_name: The Job Template name that this job uses
• tower_user_id: The user ID of the Tower user that started this job. This is not available for callback or scheduled jobs.
• tower_user_name: The user name of the Tower user that started this job. This is not available for callback or scheduled jobs.
• tower_schedule_id: If applicable, the ID of the schedule that launched this job
• tower_schedule_name: If applicable, the name of the schedule that launched this job
• tower_workflow_job_id: If applicable, the ID of the workflow job that launched this job
• tower_workflow_job_name: If applicable, the name of the workflow job that launched this job. Note this is also the same as the workflow job template.

Is this what you're looking for?