Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform credential type

Select this credential to access another automation controller instance.

Ansible Automation Platform credentials require the following inputs:

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: The base URL or IP address of the other instance to connect to.
  • Username: The username to use to connect to it.
  • Password: The password to use to connect to it.
  • Oauth Token: If username and password are not used, provide an OAuth token to use to authenticate.

The env injectors for Ansible Automation Platform are as follows:

ManagedCredentialType(                                                                                                                                                                                 
      namespace='controller',

  ....
  ....
  ....                                                                                                                                                                                                              
   
  injectors={                                                                                                                                                                                                       
          'env': {
              'TOWER_HOST': '{{host}}',
              'TOWER_USERNAME': '{{username}}',
              'TOWER_PASSWORD': '{{password}}',                                                                                                                                                     
              'TOWER_VERIFY_SSL': '{{verify_ssl}}',
              'TOWER_OAUTH_TOKEN': '{{oauth_token}}',                                                                                                                                               
              'CONTROLLER_HOST': '{{host}}',                                                                                                                                                        
              'CONTROLLER_USERNAME': '{{username}}',
              'CONTROLLER_PASSWORD': '{{password}}',                                                                                                                                                
              'CONTROLLER_VERIFY_SSL': '{{verify_ssl}}',                                                                                                                                            
              'CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN': '{{oauth_token}}',                                                                                                                                          
          }

Access automation controller credentials in an Ansible Playbook
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You can get the host, username, and password parameters from a job runtime environment:

vars:
  controller:
    host: '{{ lookup("env", "CONTROLLER_HOST") }}'
    username: '{{ lookup("env", "CONTROLLER_USERNAME") }}'
    password: '{{ lookup("env", "CONTROLLER_PASSWORD") }}'