Ansible AWX - Creating Job Templates

Ansible defines Job Templates as a “combination of an Ansible playbook and the set of parameters required to launch it.”

They are reusable and shareable, and can be helpful in running a job multiple times.

Prerequisites

Setup new Projects

Creating a new Job Template

Once you have created a Project, click on Templates.

Next, click on the green plus icon to begin adding a new Job template.

Fill in the required fields as shown in the example below.

  • Job type accepts either “Run” or “Check” where the latter only checks the syntax of the playbook.
  • Project this is the one you created earlier

Last updated on 27 Feb 2020
Published on 27 Feb 2020