Ansible and Terraform runners

[erjac77]

Following the first Nautobot Community Meeting two weeks ago, I'm looking to start a discussion on creating Ansible and Terraform local runners for jobs. Maybe something similar to the Nornir plugin, so other plugins and jobs can be built on top of it.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner

One use-case in mind: We want to use the Ansible collection for Arista Validated Designs (AVD) to configure Arista devices. A local Ansible runner would be helpful.
https://github.com/aristanetworks/ansible-avd

[jvanderaa]

I've been starting to think a small bit about the build of an execution environment into this list. I think that those would be hosted over on https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot-ansible/.

[jvanderaa]

Got it. That makes sense. You should be able to import any package into a Job. In this example https://josh-v.com/nautobot-jobs-execution/ I imported the Meraki library.

[jifox]

@erjac77 Thanks for referencing my discussion entry Utilize ansible-runner to execute playbooks from jobs/api/... to this discussion.

Is there any activity already going on?

[smk4664]

@jifox I started to brainstorm on this, with no real work yet. I wouldn't mind trying to jot down some ideas.

Would you be opposed to me creating a repo for this and tracking the discussion and brainstorming there?

[jifox]

@smk4664 Thanks for your offer to create a repo. I appreciate this.

[jpedersen01]

Did this move forward? Running ansible playbooks from Nautobot would be a huge benefit.