Basic WebUI for using Ansible

DISCLAIMER: This is an unofficial community project! Do not confuse it with the vanilla Ansible product!

The goal is to allow users to quickly install & run a WebUI for using Ansible locally.

Keep it simple.

Setup

Local - PIP

Requires Python >=3.10

# install
python3 -m pip install ansibleguy-webui

# run
python3 -m ansibleguy-webui

Docker

Images: webui, webui-unprivileged, webui-aws

docker image pull ansible0guy/webui:latest
docker run -d --name ansible-webui --publish 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 ansible0guy/webui:latest

# or with persistent data (volumes: /data = storage for logs & DB, /play = ansible playbook base-directory)
docker run -d --name ansible-webui --publish 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 --volume $(pwd)/ansible/data:/data --volume $(pwd)/ansible/play:/play ansible0guy/webui:latest

Demo

Check out the demo at: demo.webui.ansibleguy.net

Login: User demo, Password Ansible1337

Usage

Documentation

Alternative Link

Contribute

Feel free to contribute to this project using pull-requests, issues and discussions!

Testers are also very welcome! Please give feedback

See also: Contributing

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Roadmap

• Ansible Config

  • Static Playbook-Directory

  • Git Repository support

• Users

  • Management interface (Django built-in)

  • Groups & Job Permissions

  • LDAP integration

  • SAML SSO integration

• Jobs

  • Execute Ansible using ansible-runner

    • Scheduled execution (Cron-Format)

    • Manual/immediate execution

    • Custom Execution-Forms

    • Support for ad-hoc commands

    • Support for Process-Isolation

  • Job Logging

    • Write job metadata to database

    • Write full job-logs to Filesystem

  • Secret handling (Connect, Become, Vault)

    • User-specific job credentials

  • Alerting on Failure

    • E-Mail

    • Support for external Plugins (simple Interface for Scripts)

• WebUI

  • Job Dashboard

    Status, Execute, Time of last & next execution, Last run User, Links to Warnings/Errors

  • Job Output

    Follow the jobs output in realtime

  • Job Errors

    UI that allows for easy error analysis. Access to logs and provide links to possible solutions

  • Show Ansible Running-Config

  • Show Ansible Collections

    • Check Collections for available updates (Galaxy + GitHub releases)

  • Mobile Support

  • Multi-Language Support

• API

  • Manage and execute Jobs

• Database

  • Support for MySQL

• Testing

  • Unit Tests

  • Integration Tests

    • Basic WebUI checks

    • API Endpoints

    • Permission system