include_playbook / include tasks from Bitbucket?

[TOB]

Hi everyone,

short summary: I have a playbook from where I wanna start other playbooks hosted on Bitbucket. In short words: Got a server and want to clone repository on Bitbucket where are all the other playbooks which I want to run on the remote server.

---
- name: Deploy
  hosts: all
  become: yes


  tasks:
# INSTALL GIT ON REMOTE MACHINE
  - name: Install GIT
    apt:
      pkg:
        - git

# CLONE GIT REPO ON REMOTE MACHINE
  - name: Connect to Bitbucket repo
    git:
      repo: ssh://user...@bitbucket.org/repository/repository.git
      accept_hostkey: yes
      version: master
      dest: /home/username/git/
      key_file: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa

# FETCH YML FROM BITBUCKET
  - name: Fetch yml from remote
    fetch:
      remote_src: yes
      src: /home/username/git/playbookfolder/playbook.yml
      dest: /
      flat: yes

  - name: Run yml
    include_tasks: "/home/username/git/playbookfolder/playbook.yml"

It's cloning and saving the git repository on the host machine. But now I want to run a playbook / include tasks on it. It's trying to find the playbook on the Ansible controller but it should search on the remote server I cloned the repo to. Getting this one:

PLAY [Deploy] *****************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
ok: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
TASK [Install GIT] *************************************************************
ok: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] => {"cache_update_time": 1550376354, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false}
TASK [Connect to Bitbucket repo] ***********************************************
changed: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] => {"after": "XXX", "before": "XXX", "changed": true, "remote_url_changed": false}
TASK [Fetch yml from remote] ***************************************************
ok: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] => {"changed": false, "checksum": "xxxxxxxxx", "dest": "/playbook.yml", "file": "/home/username/git/playbookfolder/playbook.yml", "md5sum": "xxxxx"}
TASK [Run yml] *****************************************************************
fatal: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: FAILED! => {"reason": "Unable to retrieve file contents\nCould not find or access '/home/username/git/playbookfolder/playbook.yml' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"}
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx            : ok=4    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=1  

I'm pretty sure I'm using the wrong syntax, but cannot figure out which is the right one. This one here is working but it's not doing the things I wrote in those different playbooks.

[...]
# FETCH UBUNTU / UPGRADE FROM BITBUCKET

  - name: Fetch yml from remote

    fetch:

      remote_src: yes

      src: /home/username/git/playbookfolder2/playbook1.yml

      dest: /

      flat: yes

      import_playbook: playbook1.yml

# FETCH INSTALL LAMP FROM BITBUCKET

  - name: Fetch and run other one

    fetch:

      remote_src: yes

      src: /home/username/git/playbookfolder2/playbook2.yml

      dest: /

      flat: yes

      import_playbook: playbook2.yml
[...]

Results here are following:

[...]
TASK [Fetch yml from remote] ***************************************************

15:19:22

34

ok: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

35

36

TASK [Fetch and run other one] **************************************************

15:19:23

37

ok: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

38

39

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

15:19:23

40

[...]

Thanks in advance for any help! :)

[Michael Mullay]

There is a git module for this purpose which may work better for you.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/git_module.html#git-module

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[TOB]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your answer. I'm already using it, it's in the first code block above.

Best

[Michael Mullay]

Sorry, yes, too early for clear thinking. ;)

I was thinking of ansible-pull. I know Brian Coca that frequents this forum had a github or galaxy entry on the subject some time ago but I can't seem to find it. But this is a good reference (or you can just do a 'man ansible-pull'):

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/ansible-pull.1.html

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[TOB]

Good morning then! :)

I'll take a look. The weird thing is following: The remote server is cloning the files (checked it manually if they're there) but with "include_tasks" or "import_playbook" I'm not able to execute the playbooks lying around there. 

[Michael Mullay]

Yeah I have not tried to execute a playbook like that so I don't have anything to offer there. I've done your exact scenerio though using ansible-pull to run a playbook from my BitBucket repo.

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[TOB]

Okay, going to take a look on it - thanks. Do you know if it's possible to use pull on Ansible AWX?

[Michael Mullay]

Yes, AWX let you use any kind of remote repo as a data source. Although I have not used it in a couple of years.

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[Brian Coca]

Ansible CANNOT read the files on the remote as part of the playbook,
you need to either check them out on the controller (git +
delegate_to: localhost) or 'fetch' them via the module with the same
name.

AWX will just checkout that repo onto the AWX machine and run Ansible
'locally' on those files, either way works
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[P. Varsha]

hello,

Once check your file location.

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