Add support for variable files into 'Job Template'

[v-miguel]

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Feature type

Enhancement to Existing Feature

Feature Summary

Problem description

To get applications and servers configurations stored following a GitOps approach it is important to have a single source of truth where all this configurations are stored, available and secure, providing also traceability over configurations changes.

Also, it may have some use-cases where the same ansible playbooks are run through AWX, manually by a sysAdmin, through some pipeline, ... and this requires that all configurations are saved ina single place and accessible through all of this different means.

Proposed implementation

Add support in job templates to load a variables file from the same git repository where the playbooks are defined OR from a different git repository.

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Steps to reproduce

Add an option to load extra variables from a file stored in the git repo

Current results

It is not possible at all. All config variables should be defined into awx. If need to run the ansible playbooks by other means, it is not possible to do so having the configurations centralized.

Sugested feature result

Have an option to load a variables file into job template, which is stored in a git repo.

Additional information

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