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This is a question that comes up often and thus made its way to the
documentation FAQ [1] :)

Yes, ARA only provides playbook run recording and reporting/viewing.

The web interface is 100% passive, there are no actions that can be taken
like editing or retrying a playbook.

In fact, it's so passive that there is a feature to statically generate the
whole web application to HTML like StackViz.

[1]:
http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#why-don-t-you-use-ansible-tower-rundeck-or-semaphore

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Mar 22, 2017 8:48 PM, "Joshua Harlow" <harlowja at fastmail.com> wrote:

Sounds neat,

So this would be similar to what tower or semaphore also have (I would
assume they have something very like ARA internally) but instead of
providing the whole start/stop/inventory workflow this just provides the
viewing component?

David Moreau Simard wrote:

> Hi openstack-dev,
>
> There's this project I'm passionate that I want to tell you about: ARA [1].
> So, what's ARA ?
>
> ARA is an Ansible callback plugin that you can set up anywhere you run
> Ansible today.
> The next time you run an ansible-playbook command, it'll automatically
> record and organize all the data and provide an intuitive interface
> for you to browse the playbook results.
>
> In practice, you can find a video demonstration of what the user
> interface looks like here [2].
>
> ARA doesn't require you to change your existing workflows, it doesn't
> require you to re-write your playbooks.
> It's offline, self-contained, standalone and decentralized by default.
> You can run it on your laptop for a single playbook or run it across
> thousands of runs, recording millions of tasks in a centralized
> database.
> You can read more about the project's core values and philosophies in
> the documented manifesto [3].
>
> ARA is already used by many different projects that leverage Ansible
> to fulfill their needs, for example:
> - OpenShift-Ansible
> - OpenStack-Ansible
> - Kolla-Ansible
> - TripleO-Quickstart
> - Browbeat
> - devstack-gate
>
> ARA's also garnered quite a bit of interest outside the OpenStack
> community and there is already a healthy amount of users hanging out
> in IRC on #ara.
>
> So, it looks like the project is going well. Why am I asking for help ?
>
> ARA has been growing in popularity, that's definitely something I am
> very happy about.
> However, this also means that there are more users, more feedback,
> more questions, more bugs, more feature requests, more use cases and
> unfortunately, ARA doesn't happen to be my full time job.
> ARA is a tool that I created to make my job easier !
>
> Also, as much as I hate to admit it, I am by no means a professional
> python developer -- even less so in frontend (html/css/js).
> Being honest, there are things that we should be doing in the project
> that I don't have the time or the skills to accomplish.
>
> Examples of what I would need help with, aside from what's formally on
> StoryBoard [4]:
> - Help the community (answer questions, triage bugs, etc)
> - Flask experts (ARA is ultimately a flask application)
> - Better separation of components (decouple things properly into a
> server/client/api interface)
> - Full python3 compatibility, test coverage and gating
> - Improve/optimize SQL models/performance
>
> Contributing to ARA in terms of code is no different than any other
> OpenStack project but I've documented the process if you are not
> familiar with it [5].
> ARA has good unit and integration test coverage and I love to think
> it's not a project that is hard to develop for.
>
> If you feel the project is interesting and would like to get involved,
> I'd love to welcome you on board.
>
> Let's chat.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/openstack/ara
> [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQiN5wBXZ4g
> [3]: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manifesto.html
> [4]: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/843
> [5]: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
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