Chapter 2. Using Ansible roles to automate repetitive tasks on hosts

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select the host and click Edit.
3. On the Ansible Roles tab, select the role that you want to add from the Available Ansible Roles list.
4. Click the + icon to add the role to the host. You can add more than one role.
5. Click Submit.
6. Optional: On the Parameters tab, click Add Parameter to add any parameter variables that you want to pass to job templates at run time. This includes all Ansible Playbook parameters and host parameters that you want to associate with the host. To use a parameter variable with an Ansible job template, you must add a Host Parameter.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select the host and click Edit.
3. Select the Ansible Roles tab.
4. In the Assigned Ansible Roles area, click the - icon to remove the role from the host. Repeat to remove more roles.
5. Click Submit.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select a host.
3. Select the Ansible Roles tab.
4. In the Assigned Ansible Roles area, you can change the order of the roles by dragging and dropping the roles into the preferred position.
5. Click Submit to save the order of the Ansible roles.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Select the checkbox of the host that contains the Ansible role you want to run.
3. From the Select Action list, select Run all Ansible roles.
4. You can view the status of your Ansible job on the Run Ansible roles page. To rerun a job, click Rerun.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Configure > Host Groups.
2. Click the host group name to which you want to assign an Ansible role.
3. On the Ansible Roles tab, select the role that you want to add from the Available Ansible Roles list.
4. Click the + icon to add the role to the host group. You can add more than one role.
5. Click Submit.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Configure > Host Groups.
2. From the list in the Actions column for the host group, select Run all Ansible roles.
3. You can view the status of your Ansible job on the Run Ansible roles page. Click Rerun to rerun a job.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.
2. Click Edit for the host you want to enable check mode for.
3. In the Parameters tab, ensure that the host has a parameter named ansible_roles_check_mode with type boolean set to true.
4. Click Submit.