Ansible Service Broker

Ansible Service Broker is an implementation of the Open Service Broker API that manages applications defined in Ansible Playbook Bundles. Ansible Playbook Bundles (APB) are a method of defining applications via a collection of Ansible Playbooks built into a container with an Ansible runtime with the playbooks corresponding to a type of request specified in the Open Service Broker API Specification.

Check out the Keynote Demo from Red Hat Summit 2017

Features

• Easily define, distribute, and provision microservice(s), like RocketChat and PostgreSQL, via ansible playbooks packaged in Ansible Playbook Bundles.
• Easily bind microservice(s) provisioned through Ansible Playbook Bundles, for example: Using the Service Catalog to Bind a PostgreSQL APB to a Python Web App.

Learn More:

• Documentation
• Our Trello Board
• Chat with us on IRC (Freenode): #asbroker
• Email us at ansible-service-broker@redhat.com and subscribe to the Ansible Service Broker's mailing list
• Our YouTube Channel

Important Links

• Check out the ansible playbook bundle project and our library of example APBs
• catasb gives you more control over your development environment
• Amazon Web Services deployed into OpenShift via Ansible Service Broker
• Presentation Open Service Broker API + Ansible Service Broker/Ansible Playbook Bundles

Getting Started with the Ansible Service Broker

Prerequisites

1. You will need a system setup for local OpenShift Origin Cluster Management
   • Your OpenShift Client binary (oc) must be >= v3.7.0-rc.0

Deploy an OpenShift Origin Cluster with the Ansible Service Broker

1. Download and execute our run_latest_build.sh script

   Origin Version 3.7:

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/ansible-service-broker/master/scripts/run_latest_build.sh
   chmod +x run_latest_build.sh
   ./run_latest_build.sh
   

2. At this point you should have a running cluster with the service-catalog and the Ansible Service Broker running.

Provision an instance of MediaWiki and PostgreSQL

1. Log into OpenShift Web Console
2. Create a new project 'apb-demo'
3. Provision MediaWiki APB
   • Select the 'apb-demo' project
   • Enter a 'MediaWiki Admin User Password': 's3curepw'
   • Click 'Create'
4. Provision PostgreSQL APB
   • Select the 'apb-demo' project
   • Leave 'PostgreSQL Password' blank, a random password will be generated
   • Choose a 'PostgreSQL Version'; either version will work.
   • Click 'Next'
   • Select 'Do not bind at this time' and then 'Create'
5. Wait until both APBs have finished deploying, and you see pods running for MediaWiki and PostgreSQL

Bind MediaWiki to PostgreSQL

1. Bind MediaWiki to PostgreSQL
   • Click on kebab menu for PostgreSQL
   • Select 'Create Binding' and then 'Bind'
   • Click on the link to the created secret
   • Click 'Add to Application'
   • Select 'mediawiki123' and 'Environment variables'
   • Click 'Save'
2. View the route for MediaWiki and verify the wiki is up and running.
   • Observe that mediawiki123 is on deployment '#2', having been automatically redeployed

Contributing

First, start with the Contributing Guide.

Contributions are welcome. Open issues for any bugs or problems you may run into, ask us questions on IRC (Freenode): #asbroker, or see what we are working on at our Trello Board.

If you want to run the test suite, when you are ready to submit a PR for example, make sure you have your development environment setup, and from the root of the project run:

# Check your go source files (gofmt, go vet, golint), build the broker, and run unit tests
make check

# Get helpful information about our make targets
make help

License

Ansible Service Broker is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.