Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Let's first get the inventory end points:

$ curl -s -k -u admin:mysecretpassword https://192.168.0.102/api/v2/ 

2. This would output a JSON file. If it is too hard to read, we can pipe the output to the Python json.tool module, like this:

$ curl -s -k -u admin:mysecretpassword https://192.168.0.102/api/v2/ | python -m json.tool 

3. We can list templates as well:

$ curl -s -k -u admin:mysecretpassword https://192.168.0.102/api/v2/job_templates/ 

4. From the output of the API response, we can get the ID of the template and execute the jobs:

$ curl -k -u admin:mysecretpassword https://192.168.0.102/api/v2/job_templates/7/launch/ 

5. We can also check out logs of a job by using a job ID obtained from the previous launch:

$ curl ...