Var prompt use in awx tower

[samineni]

Team,

I have wrote a playbook to create a users in server with vars_prompt, when i execute the playbook with  ansible cli it is working fine but the same was not working with awx tower.

what i  have to change in playbook  to get vars_prompt 

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- hosts: all

  become_user: root

  become_method: sudo

  become: yes

  vars_prompt:

    - name: "user_name"

      prompt: "Enter user name to create"

      private: no

  tasks:

    - name: Creating user with above inputs

      user: name={{ user_name }}  comment="{{ user_name}} user" state=presen

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Thanks & Regards.......?

Rajesh Samineni

[Bill Nottingham]

samineni (rajesh....@gmail.com) said:
> I have wrote a playbook to create a users in server with vars_prompt, when
> i execute the playbook with ansible cli it is working fine but the same
> was not working with awx tower.
>
> what i have to change in playbook to get vars_prompt

vars_prompt is not supported in AWX; all playbooks must run
non-interactively. Use a survey.

Bill

[Rajesh Chowdary Samineni]

Thanks for the info @Bill.

and what about local_action, for me plain Ansible cli successfully  executed playbook same not working with AWX.

[Matthew Jones]

You need to provide more information... how does it not work?

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Ansible Tower

[Michael Wiley]

The best way we've come up to work around this is:

---
	- hosts: "{{ host_group }}"
	connection: local
	gather_facts: no
	vars_prompt:
	- name: "operator_id"
	prompt: "Username"
	private: no
	when: operator_id is not defined
	- name: "operator_passwd"
	prompt: "Password"
	when: operator_passwd is not defined
	- name: "target_dc"
	prompt: "Target DC"
	when: target_dc is not defined
	private: no

Adding the when statement allows us to either run by command ansible-playbook and receive the prompts or pass in the variables through extra-vars with a survey in AWX.