Tower-CLI

Tower-cli is a command line tool for Ansible Tower. It allows Tower commands to be easily run from the UNIX command line. It can also be used as a client library for other python apps, or as a reference for others developing API interactions with Tower’s REST API.

Installation

Installing the ansible tower-cli through two differents methodes. Python Virtual environenment or from git hub

From Source

Using the main repository : tower-cli

Clone it and make the installation

git clone https://github.com/ansible/tower-cli.git
make install

Python Venv

Use python pip

pip install tower-cli

Configuration

You can configure tower-cli from ~/.tower_cli.cfg file situated on your own home or /etc/tower-cli/tower-cli.

By default, this file is about :

$ tower-cli config

# Defaults.
verify_ssl: True
username:
format: human
insecure: False
color: True
use_token: False
host: 127.0.0.1
certificate:
oauth_token:
password:
verbose: False
description_on: False

Let insert element one by one like :

tower-cli config username = toto

or modify the configuration file.

Usage

Inventories

List Hosts by inventory

-i : inventory name

-a : all (pages)

tower-cli host list -i inventoriy_name -a

Team

Associate user to team :

tower-cli team associate --user user_name --team team_name

Group

Associate user to group :

tower-cli group associate --user user_name --group group_name

Host

Associate host to group :

tower-cli host associate --host host_name --group group_name