nilashishc / ansible-creator-server

A RESTful service for ansible-creator.

Ansible Creator Server

Usage

podman run --name=ansible-creator-svc -d -p 5000:5000 ghcr.io/nilashishc/ansible-creator-server:latest

Scaffolding an Ansible collection

curl 'localhost:5000/init?collection=testns.testorg' --output testns-testorg.tar

Scaffolding an Ansible playbook project

curl 'localhost:5000/init?project=ansible-project&scm_org=ansible&scm_project=devops' --output ansible-devops-project.tar

Untar to get scaffolded contents:

tar -xvf </path/to/tar>

Debugging

Log into the running container inspect the logs:

podman exec -it ansible-creator-svc /bin/bash
cat ansible-creator-svc-<utc timestamp>.log
cat ansible-creator.log

ansible-creator-server's Issues

Service endpoint method as GET isn't accepted

We ran into the following error, while using import fetch from 'node-fetch'; in our backstage application.
Usage -

...
    const requestOptions = {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        },
        body: JSON.stringify({ collection: 'testns.testorg' })
    };

    try {
        const response = await fetch('http://localhost:5000/init', requestOptions);

        if (!response.ok) {
            throw new Error('Failed to fetch data');
        }
 ...

Error -

info: Running ansible collection create for testns.testorg
Error: TypeError: Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body
    at new Request (/home/abc/Work/DevHub/backstage/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1221:10)
    at /home/abc/Work/DevHub/backstage/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1449:19
-------
    at NunjucksWorkflowRunner.execute (/home/abc/Work/DevHub/backstage/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/NunjucksWorkflowRunner.ts:501:9)
    at TaskWorker.runOneTask (/home/abc/Work/DevHub/backstage/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/TaskWorker.ts:176:26)

Sticking to the specific library as it is recommended by backstage docs, having a 3rd party library packed with the downstream RHDH image would be critical.
We could check, a POST request works in our case.

Regards.