Ansible integration running ansible-playbook on different host

[msperl]

Hi!

Is there a way to run ansible scripts on a different host than rundeck.

For now we just run a shell to the host and run the ansible command there manually.

So it should not be "that" complex to impement this minimal forwarding of just the ansible command to a dedicated ansible host.

Use case can also be running ansible scripts that are requireing different versions of ansible.

Thanks

[msperl]

well, as a workarround something like this seems feasable with the custom ansible binary location setting, where obviously a wrapper script can get written to run the file on the remote node - but obviously this does not work for ad coc commands where one needs to copy files first, but at least it works with playbooks. Inventory is already becoming hard...

[simon-c-msc]

You should be able to accomplish this using Ansible Playbook and Ansible Inline playbook steps and targeting your remote host in the Nodes selection tab of the Job.

Is there a reason that would not work?

[msperl]

i believe you missunderstood me!

I want to control on which host the ansible-playbook command is run not the arguments of --limitto ansible-playbook!

I guess with a later version I can work arround that by using a wrapper ansible command that basically does an ssh and executes it there (but with one slight drawback: the direcory still needs to exist on the host where rundeck itself is running)

[simon-c-msc]

In the community version of Rundeck, the ansible-playbook command will always be executed on the Rundeck since it's the controller.

Are you trying to use another server as a jump host?

If you have the enterprise version you can setup specific cluster nodes pre-project or use the new Enterprise Runner feature.