Ansible 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.

About Tower

Ansible Tower is a GUI and REST interface for Ansible that supercharges it by adding RBAC, centralized logging, autoscaling/provisioning callbacks, graphical inventory editing, and more.

Tower is free to use for up to 30 days or 10 nodes. Beyond this, a license is required.

Capabilities

This command line tool sends commands to the Tower API. It is capable of retrieving, creating, modifying, and deleting most resources within Tower.

A few potential uses include:

• Launching playbook runs (for instance, from Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, etc)
• Checking on job statuses
• Rapidly creating objects like organizations, users, teams, and more

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Install from Package Managers
  • Build from Source
• Quick Start
• CLI Reference
  • Config Command Options
  • Versioning of tower-cli
  • Notification Template Management
  • Role Management
  • Survey Management
  • Workflow Management
  • Example Commands
• API Reference
  • Introduction
• API Reference Table of Contents
  • Ad Hoc Commands
  • Credential Type
  • Credential
  • Group
  • Host
  • Instance Group
  • Instance
  • Inventory Script
  • Inventory Source
  • Inventory Update
  • Inventory
  • Job Template
  • Job
  • Label
  • Workflow Node
  • Notification Template
  • Organization
  • Project
  • Project Update
  • RBAC Role
  • Schedule
  • Tower Configuration
  • Team
  • User
  • Workflow Job
  • Workflow Job Template
• Contributor’s Guide
  • Bug Reports
  • Feature Requests
  • Architecture Overview
  • Code Contributions
• Release History
  • 3.3.6 (2019-07-19)
  • 3.3.5 (2019-07-19)
  • 3.3.4 (2019-04-22)
  • 3.3.3 (2019-03-22)
  • 3.3.2 (2019-01-28)
  • 3.3.1 (2019-01-24)
  • 3.3.0 (2018-04-25)
  • 3.2.1 (2017-12-19)
  • 3.2.0 (2017-10-04)
  • 3.1.7 (2017-08-07)
  • 3.1.6 (2017-07-18)
  • 3.1.5 (2017-07-12)
  • 3.1.4 (2017-06-07)
  • 3.1.3 (2017-03-22)
  • 3.1.2 (2017-03-21)
  • 3.1.1 (2017-03-13)
  • 3.1.0 (2017-03-09)
  • 3.0.3 (2017-02-07)
  • 3.0.2 (2016-12-08)
  • 3.0.1 (2016-09-22)
  • 3.0.0 (2016-08-05)
  • 2.3.2 (2016-07-21)
  • 2.3.1 (2015-12-10)
  • 2.3.0 (2015-10-20)
  • 2.1.1 (2015-01-27)
  • 2.1.0 (2015-01-21)
  • 2.0.2 (2014-10-02)
  • 2.0.1 (2014-07-18)
  • 2.0.0 (2014-07-15)