Examples of Event-Driven Ansible

This repository stores examples of Event-Driven Ansible, taken from: https://www.ansible.com/products/ansible-training#event-driven-automation

To try it out in a lab environment, simply follow the above link or run it in your own environment by cloning this repository.

Try it out in your own environment

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/mglantz/event-driven-ansible-demo

2. Install ansible-rulebook

pip3 install ansible-rulebook
dnf install java-17-openjdk
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk

3. Create an inventory file to run against.
4. Run setup playbook

cd event-driven-ansible-demo
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml setup-apache.yml

5. Run the website-automation example with:

ansible-rulebook --rules website-automation.yml -i inventory.yml --verbose

6. Disable apache and see rulebook stdout

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml setup-apache.yml -e httpd_state=stopped

Try out demo EDA plugin

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/mglantz/event-driven-ansible-demo

2. Copy demo plugin to your module directory.

cp event-driven-ansible-demo/ansible/eda/plugins/demo.py ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/eda/plugins/event_source/

3. Run demo rulebook

cd event-driven-ansible-demo
ansible-rulebook -i demo_inventory --rulebook demo-rulebook.yml

4. Try and edit the demo.py plugin or file-missing/file-exists.yml playbooks to do something smarter.