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Lab 3.4: Ansible Tower and REST

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While much of the focus on Tower has been using the GUI, this has primarily been to familiarize users with Ansible Tower and its object model. The Job Templates that are created within Tower all have the ability to be exposed with a REST API. In this lab we will call the same playbook template Tenant1_Pool_Add_Member as we did in the web GUI. This method makes it much easier to work Tower into a CI/CD toolset.

Task 1 - Call Tenant1_Pool_Add_Member with REST API

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This lab work will be performed from Lab 3.4- Ansible Tower and REST folder in the Postman Collection

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  1. Using Postman select Step 1: Retrieve Authentication Token. Review the Request JSON Body. The JSON body is used to get the Auth token from Tower. Press Send.

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  2. Select Step 2: Get Tenant1_Pool_add_member ID. This is a GET Request to retrieve the ID of the Template that we want to call for adding a Member. Press Send.

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  3. Select Step 3: Run Tenant1_Pool_Add_Member. Review the JSON Body of this request. The variables being sent are the same ones that the Survey would request in the GUI. Press Send.

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  4. Open a Chrome window/tab to the Tower GUI at https://10.1.1.12 and login with admin/admin credentials. Navigate to Jobs in the top Menu. Select the job that completed on the top of the list. The ID may vary, but the name will be Tenant1_Pool_Add_Member.

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  5. Once the Job template is complete you should see the Status as Successful. At this point you have add a Pool member to the pool on the BIG-IP using the REST API in Ansible Tower.

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For more information about ansible tower please reference the following start point. https://www.ansible.com/products/tower

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