AAP 2.0 Linux Workshop Running playbooks from ansible-navigator leaves ARTIFACT files in place

[benblasco]

Problem Summary

Running playbooks using Ansible Navigator leaves artifact files which make a mess in the directory where the user is running playbooks from. This makes it messy for students in the workshop to understand the contents of the directory they are working in, and is an unwieldy way to log executions. Can these be logged in a different directory to $pwd by default so that no mess is made?

Example:

[student1@ansible-1 ansible-files]$ pwd
/home/student1/ansible-files


[student1@ansible-1 ansible-files]$ ls -la
total 1168
drwxrwxr-x.  3 student1 student1   4096 Nov 15 05:55 .
drwx------. 11 student1 student1   4096 Nov 15 05:55 ..
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  19550 Nov 15 05:55 ansible-navigator.log
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  40969 Nov 15 03:43 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T03:43:46.320651+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 03:46 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T03:46:54.771654+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 03:47 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T03:47:02.921073+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 03:47 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T03:47:05.530620+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  55066 Nov 15 03:47 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T03:47:16.908124+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 05:45 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T05:45:01.030259+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  56085 Nov 15 05:45 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T05:45:15.492993+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  59716 Nov 15 05:48 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T05:48:33.673870+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1 176683 Nov 15 05:53 apache-artifact-2021-11-15T05:53:45.118101+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    361 Nov 15 05:53 apache.yml
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 05:45 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:45:57.553333+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 05:46 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:46:00.092586+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  36801 Nov 15 05:46 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:46:07.448203+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    178 Nov 15 05:54 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:54:28.531940+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  36577 Nov 15 05:54 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:54:40.342643+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1  36244 Nov 15 05:54 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:54:59.448089+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1 114166 Nov 15 05:55 check_httpd-artifact-2021-11-15T05:55:24.866599+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    198 Nov 15 05:55 check_httpd.yml
drwxrwxr-x.  2 student1 student1     22 Nov 15 05:47 files
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1 248338 Nov 15 03:45 package-artifact-2021-11-15T03:45:37.308074+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1 248006 Nov 15 03:46 package-artifact-2021-11-15T03:46:07.579370+00:00.json
-rw-rw-r--.  1 student1 student1    420 Nov 15 03:45 package.yml

Issue Type

Bug

Extra vars file

N/A

Ansible Playbook Output

N/A

Ansible Version

[student1@ansible-1 ansible-files]$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.11.2] 
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/student1/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/student1/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.8 (default, Aug 11 2021, 06:52:42) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-3)]
  jinja version = 2.10.3
  libyaml = True

Ansible Configuration

 [student1@ansible-1 ansible-files]$ ansible-config dump  --only-changed
ACTION_WARNINGS(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
COLLECTIONS_ON_ANSIBLE_VERSION_MISMATCH(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ignore
DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/student1/lab_inventory/hosts']
DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = yaml
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 60
DEPRECATION_WARNINGS(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
HOST_KEY_CHECKING(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
INTERPRETER_PYTHON(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = auto_silent
PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 200
PERSISTENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 200
RETRY_FILES_ENABLED(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
SYSTEM_WARNINGS(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False

Ansible Execution Node

Ansible Controller (previously known as Ansible Tower)

Operating System

Running from Ansible-navigator in an Ansible Execution environment.

[benblasco]

Thoughts @anshulbehl ?

[IPvSean]

@anshulbehl should we move these down a directory into like navigator-logs or something so we get best of both worlds?

[rlopez133]

@benblasco @IPvSean to fix this we could within the ansible-navigator config file add logging and artifacts and place those in different folders so it doesn't clutter the space.

something like

ansible-navigator:
  logging:
    file: ~/.ansible-navigator/logs/ansible-navigator.log
  playbook-artifact:
    save-as: ~/.ansible-navigator/artifacts/{playbook_name}-artifact-{timestamp}.json

Don't forget to create the dirs:

mkdir -p ~/.ansible-navigator/{logs,artifacts}

[benblasco]

Yes please. IMHO the default ansible-navigator behaviour creates a lot of mess in the working directory.

[IPvSean]

we just need to open an issue with the agnosticd repo @rlopez133

[rlopez133]

@IPvSean do you have a link to that repo?