Feature: create instance from the API

[magnusolsson80]

Description of the feature
Our ansible playbook can install multiple servers in parallel. I would like to see that possibility to install multiple instances with the same configuration in one go.

Multiple server installs are not possible today if I understand it correctly.

[Sispheor]

Hi,
Not sure to understand exactly your need.
You want to install multiple server of what?

You want to create multiple instance from a single service?

[magnusolsson80]

Correct. I want the abillity to create multiple instances with the same configuration under a service catalog item.

Correct me if I get this totaly wrong but today you can only process one instance at a time.

Sorry for beeing unclear.. :-(

[Sispheor]

Yes so far one request gives one instance.
But, in futur release we will add the ability to create instance from the API.
So, you will be able to create instance from the executed playbook.

[magnusolsson80]

Ok.. I understand. It is a little bit of "ping pong" in between the ansible/awx tower and squest servers, but it will work.

[Sispheor]

We can add the ability to have a new flag in "instance" which could be "parent".
So you can create "child" linked to the main service.

Like. The user asked for a service K8S, a service named K8S is created, and from the API you create child VMs that have been created behind the scene to support this service.

I know that force to place some task in the playbook side but it allows us to be very generic.

[Sispheor]

Done and merged in dev.
Will be a part of the v1 release.