Installing Ansible Runner

Ansible Runner is provided from several different locations depending on how you want to use it.

Using pip

Python 2.7+ and 3.6+ are supported and installable via pip:

$ pip install ansible-runner

Fedora

To install from the latest Fedora sources:

$ dnf install python-ansible-runner

From source

Check out the source code from github:

$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner

Or download from the releases page

Then install:

$ python setup.py install

OR:

$ pip install .

Build the distribution

To produce an installable wheel file:

make dist

To produce a distribution tarball:

make sdist

Building the base container image

Make sure the wheel distribution is built (see Build the distribution) and run:

make image

Building the RPM

The RPM build uses a container image to bootstrap the environment in order to produce the RPM. Make sure you have docker installed and proceed with:

make rpm

Changelog

1.1.0 (2018-08-16)

  • Added a feature that supports sending ansible status and events to external systems via a plugin interface
  • Added support for Runner module users to receive runtime status changes in the form of a callback that can be supplied to the run() methods (or passing it directly on Runner initialization)
  • Fix an issue where timeout settings were far too short
  • Add a new status and return code to indicate Runner timeout occurred.
  • Add support for running ad-hoc commands (direct module invocation, ala ansible vs ansible-playbook)
  • Fix an issue that caused missing data in events sent to the event handler(s)
  • Adding support for supplying role_path in module interface
  • Fix an issue where messages would still be emitted when –quiet was used
  • Fix a bug where ansible processes could be orphaned after canceling a job
  • Fix a bug where calling the Runner stats method would fail on python 3
  • Fix a bug where direct execution of roles couldn’t be daemonized
  • Fix a bug where relative paths couldn’t be used when calling start vs run

1.0.5 (2018-07-23)

  • Fix a bug that could cause a hang if unicode environment variables are used
  • Allow select() to be used instead of poll() when invoking pexpect
  • Check for the presence of Ansible before executing
  • Fix an issue where a missing project directory would cause Runner to fail silently
  • Add support for automatic cleanup/rotation of artifact directories
  • Adding support for Runner module users to receive events in the form of a callback that can be supplied to the run() methods (or passing it directly on Runner initialization)
  • Adding support for Runner module users to provide a callback that will be invoked when the Runner Ansible process has finished. This can be supplied to the run() methods (or passing it directly on Runner initialization).

1.0.4 (2018-06-29)

  • Adding support for pexpect 4.6 for performance and efficiency improvements
  • Adding support for launching roles directly
  • Adding support for changing the output mode to json instead of vanilla Ansible (-j)
  • Adding arguments to increase ansible verbosity (-v[vvv]) and quiet mode (-q)
  • Adding support for overriding the artifact directory location
  • Adding the ability to pass arbitrary arguments to the invocation of Ansible
  • Improving debug and verbose output
  • Various fixes for broken python 2/3 compatibility, including the event generator in the python module
  • Fixing a bug when providing an ssh key via the private directory interface
  • Fixing bugs that prevented Runner from working on MacOS
  • Fixing a bug that caused issues when providing extra vars via the private dir interface