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Using Ansible to Interact with Web Endpoints

We often think of Ansible as a useful tool for automating configuration management and system administration tasks. But did you know that Ansible has powerful, built-in capabilities to interact with web endpoints and APIs? While Ansible may not always be your tool of choice for these types of applications, it can be very useful to quickly interact with a web API without shelling out to an external script or utility. In this video, we work through a concrete example of using Ansible's URI module to accomplish a common systems task: creating, silencing, and enabling a monitoring alert for a system during an upgrade. The example starts off simple, but we quickly add advanced functionality such as error handling, response body processing, and request data submission. Calling an API endpoint with Ansible is a fast and powerful way to add additional functionality to your playbooks. Playbook: https://github.com/acritelli/beyond-t... VIDEO CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:14 - Overview and Background 01:16 - Environment Setup 01:55 - Scenario 02:56 - Demo Playbook and Inventory Setup 04:55 - Adding an API Interaction with the URI Module 10:05 - The Importance of delegate_to 11:10 - Finishing and Running the Example 12:16 - The Importance of Error Handling 14:15 - Using Ansible Blocks to Handle Errors 17:55 - Extending the Scenario 19:42 - Inspecting a JSON Response Body 21:13 - The JSON query filter 25:08 - Sending a POST request with a JSON Body 30:17 - Putting it All Together 33:09 - Conclusion and Outro