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
- Quick Start
- CLI Reference
- API Reference
- 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
- 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)