D4Science Infrastructure

Also to investigate:
http://code-complete.com/code/?p=40 https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore semaphore, a basic GUI for ansible
Rundeck, http://rundeck.org/index.html but it seems that supporting ansible will not be easy.

Foreman is working in some way. An ansible plugin is needed, instructions will follow.
shell.research-infrastructures.eu has the plugin already configured.

What's needed to enable the foreman callback on your own desktop:

1. Edit the ansible global configuration file. /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg on Linux, /opt/local/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg on OSX, to add the following line on the defaults section (ensure that no other callback_plugins entry is present):

callback_plugins   = ~/.ansible/plugins/callback_plugins
bin_ansible_callbacks = True

1. Install the attached file as `~/.ansible/plugins/callback_plugins/foreman_callback.py

2. Install the python requests module from pip. The one provided by packages is not new enough.

3. Run ansible as usual, with a caveaut. If you are going to provision a host for the first time, a one time command is needed to add its data to foreman:

ansible -m setup -i <inventory file> <host or group name> --ask-vault-pass

An alternative is to ask me or @tommaso.piccioli@isti.cnr.it for an access to shell.research-infrastructures.eu, where ansible and the foreman callback are already configured globally.