Ansible Playbook Bundle (APB)
An Ansible Playbook Bundle (APB) is a lightweight application definition (meta-container). They are used to define and deploy complex groups of applications, deployment configs, deployments, and services to an OpenShift Origin cluster running the Ansible Service Broker. APBs offer more power and simple configuration by leveraging the power of Ansible. APBs have the following features:
- Metadata contains list of required/optional parameters for use during deployment.
- Leverages existing investment in Ansible Roles / Playbooks.
- Actions under a directory with named playbooks and metadata defined in apb.yml.
- Developer tooling to drive a guided approach.
- Easily modified or extended.
Installing the apb tool
Prerequisites
Docker must be correctly installed and running on the system.
RPM Installation
For RHEL or CentOS 7:
su -c 'wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/ansible-service-broker/ansible-service-broker/repo/epel-7/group_ansible-service-broker-ansible-service-broker-epel-7.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ansible-service-broker.repo'
sudo yum -y install apb
For Fedora 25 or Fedora 26:
sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf -y copr enable @ansible-service-broker/ansible-service-broker
sudo dnf -y install apb
Installing from source
Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/fusor/ansible-playbook-bundle.git
Install python-virtualenv, create a virtualenv, and activate it.
sudo dnf install -y python-virtualenv
virtualenv apb
source apb/bin/activate
Install requirements and run the setup script (requires python)
pip install -r src/requirements.txt && python setup.py install
Alternatively you can use tito to install.
tito build --test --rpm -iTest apb tooling
Run apb help to make sure the tool is installed correctly
$ apb help
usage: apb [-h] [--debug] [--project BASE_PATH] {init,help,prepare,build} ...
APB tooling for assisting in building and packaging APBs.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--debug Enable debug output
--project BASE_PATH, -p BASE_PATH
Specify a path to your project. Defaults to CWD.
subcommand:
{init,help,prepare,build}
init Initialize the directory for APB development
help Display this help message
prepare Prepare an ansible-container project for APB packaging
build Build and package APB container
push Push the APB spec to an Ansible Service Broker
Documentation
- Getting Started - step by step tutorial to create an Ansible Playbook Bundle
- Design - overall design of Ansible Playbook Bundles
- Developers - in depth explanation of Ansible Playbook Bundles
Links
- Ansible Service Broker https://github.com/openshift/ansible-service-broker
- YouTube channel: Ansible Service Broker
- YouTube channel: APB
Initialize skeleton APB application example
apb init my_apb -p name=my_apb_param,type=string,default=foo_param,description="sample description" --async=optional --bindable --organization my_organization
This gives us the following example apb.yaml
name: my_apb
image: my_organization/my_apb
description: This is a sample application generated by apb init
bindable: True
async: optional
parameters:
- name: my_apb_param
description: sample description
type: string
default: foo_param
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