Django-Ansible

dj_ansible is a Django App that allow Django applications to integrate with Ansible. basiclly it allow you to store inventory data in database using DjangoModels, and provide an API to execute Json-like playbooks.

currently supported on Ansible <= 2.7.10

Quick Start

1. install django-ansible

   pip install django-ansible

2. Add "dj_ansible" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
      ...
      'dj_ansible',
   ]
   

3. Run python manage.py makemigrations to create migrations for the tables.

4. Run python manage.py migrate to create the needed tables.

5. add your inventory data to two tables

   • ansible_network_groups (model: AnsibleNetworkGroup())
   • ansible_network_hosts (model: AnsibleNetworkHost())

   like following :

   from dj_ansible.models import AnsibleNetworkHost,AnsibleNetworkGroup
   
   my_group = AnsibleNetworkGroup(name='cisco_firewalls',
                                  ansible_connection='network_cli',
                                  ansible_network_os='asa',
                                  ansible_become=True)
   my_group.save()
   host = AnsibleNetworkHost(host='my_asa',
                             ansible_ssh_host='192.168.1.1',
                             ansible_user='admin',
                             ansible_ssh_pass='pass',
                             ansible_become_pass='pass',
                             group=my_group)
   host.save()
   

Running Play-books

to run play-books use the execute API to execute your play-books

Example

1. create play-book dictionary

    my_play = dict(
              name="may_first_play",
              hosts='cisco_firewalls',
              become='yes',
              become_method='enable',
              gather_facts='no',
              tasks=[
                  dict(action=dict(module='asa_command', commands=['show version','show ip'])),
                  dict(action=dict(module='asa_config', lines=['network-object host 10.1.0.1'])
              ]
          )
   

2. run my_play using the execute API

   from dj_ansible.ansible_kit import execute
   
   result = execute(my_play)
   # print the stats
   print(json.dumps(result.stats, indent=4))
   # print execution results
   print(json.dumps(result.results, indent=4))
   

3. the result object consist of two jsons:

• first state, which look like this:

  {
  "all_ok": false,
  "total_hosts": 3,
  "has_changed": false,
  "duration": 12.400323867797852,
  "hosts_stats": {
      "ok_hosts": {
          "count": 2,
          "hosts": [
              "fw2",
              "fw1"
          ]
      },
      "failed_hosts": {
          "count": 1,
          "hosts": [
              "ios_switch1"
          ]
      },
      "processed_hosts": {
          "count": 3,
          "hosts": [
              "fw2",
              "fw1",
              "ios_switch1"
          ]
      },
      "changed_hosts": {
          "count": 0,
          "hosts": []
      }
  },
  "hosts": [
      {
          "host": "fw2",
          "status": "ok",
          "changed": false
      },
      {
          "host": "fw1",
          "status": "ok",
          "changed": false
      },
      {
          "host": "ios_switch1",
          "status": "failed",
          "changed": false
      }
  ]}
  

• and result, which looks like this:

  {
  "failed": [
      {
          "host": "ios_switch1",
          "tasks": [
              {
                  "name": "asa_command",
                  "result": {
                      "msg": "timed out",
                      "_ansible_no_log": false
                  }
              }
          ]
      }
  ],
  "success": [
      {
          "host": "fw2",
          "tasks": [
              {
                  "name": "asa_command",
                  "result": {
                      "invocation": {
                          "module_args": {
                              "username": null,
                              "authorize": null,
                              "password": null,
                              "passwords": null,
                              "context": null,
                              "retries": 10,
                              "auth_pass": null,
                              "interval": 1,
                              "commands": [
                                  "show version"
                              ],
                              "host": null,
                              "ssh_keyfile": null,
                              "timeout": null,
                              "provider": null,
                              "wait_for": null,
                              "port": null,
                              "match": "all"
                          }
                      },
                      "stdout_lines": [
                          [
                              "Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.5(3)6 ",
                              "Device Manager Version 7.1(3)",
                              ....
                              "Configuration last modified by enable_15 at 12:55:31.479 EDT Sun Apr 7 2019"
                          ]
                      ],
                      "changed": false,
                      "stdout": [
                          "Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.5(3)6 \nDevice Manager Version 7.1(3)\n\n... ],
                      "_ansible_parsed": true,
                      "_ansible_no_log": false
                  }
              }
          ]
      },
      {
          "host": "fw1",
          "tasks": [
              {
                  "name": "asa_command",
                  "result": {
                      "invocation": {
                          "module_args": {
                              "username": null,
                              "authorize": null,
                              "password": null,
                              "passwords": null,
                              "context": null,
                              "retries": 10,
                              "auth_pass": null,
                              "interval": 1,
                              "commands": [
                                  "show version"
                              ],
                              "host": null,
                              "ssh_keyfile": null,
                              "timeout": null,
                              "provider": null,
                              "wait_for": null,
                              "port": null,
                              "match": "all"
                          }
                      },
                      "stdout_lines": [
                          [
                              "Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.1(7)16 ",
                              "",
                              "Compiled on Thu 30-Mar-17 17:39 by builders",
                              "System image file is \"disk0:/asa917-16-k8.bin\"",
                              "Config file at boot was \"startup-config\"",
                              "",
                              ....
                              "Configuration register is 0x1",
                              "Configuration last modified by admin at 16:25:49.318 UTC Sat Apr 6 2019"
                          ]
                      ],
                      "changed": false,
                      "stdout": [
                          "Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.1(7)16 \n\n.... ],
                      "_ansible_parsed": true,
                      "_ansible_no_log": false
                  }
              }
          ]
      }
  ]}
  

Note

for now dj_ansible support network devices inventory only, contibution is so welcome to add support for other inventories types like servers.