Ansible Tower Launch Job Template

An Ansible Tower Job Template is a definition and set of parameters for running an Ansible job. Job Templates are useful to execute the same job many times. Launching a Job Template also performs the following actions within Ansible Tower:

• Creates a Job Record
• Gives the Job Record all of the attributes in the template
• Runs Ansible with the combined data from the Job Template and runtime data

Use the Ansible Tower Launch Job Template activity to launch an Ansible Tower job template from within a workflow.

Usage

Complete the following properties to use this activity:

• Ansible Tower Job Template - Specify the following information or click the Variable Reference icon to choose a variable:

  • Ansible Tower Job Template ID (Target should be defined before browsing required launch_variables) - Click the drop-down list and choose the Job Template ID. You must have an Ansible Tower Endpoint configured in the activity properties for the list to populate.
  • Launch Job Template Parameters - Enter the required parameters in JSON format.