semaphore

Open Source Alternative to Ansible Tower

Features

The basics of Ansible Tower, but in addition:

• Fast, Simple interface (not having to submit a million forms to get something simple done)
• Task output is streamed live via websocket
• Create inventories per playbook
• Add rsa keys (to authenticate git repositories)
• Run playbooks against specified hosts
• Multiple Users support

Docker quickstart

Run redis

docker run -d \
  --name=redisio \
  --restart=always \
  -v /var/lib/redisio:/var/lib/redis \
  -p 127.0.0.1:6379:6379 \
  castawaylabs/redis-docker

Run mongodb

docker run -d \
  --name=mongodb \
  --restart=always \
  -v /var/lib/mongodb:/var/lib/mongodb \
  -p 127.0.0.1:27017:27017 \
  castawaylabs/mongodb-docker

Run semaphore

docker run -d \
  --name=semaphore \
  --restart=always \
  --link redisio:redis \
  --link mongodb:mongo \
  -e MONGODB_URL="mongodb://mongo/semaphore" \
  -e REDIS_HOST="redis" \
  -p 80:80 \
  castawaylabs/semaphore

Development

1. Install VirtualBox & Vagrant
2. Run vagrant plugin install gatling-rsync-auto
3. Run vagrant up to start the vagrant box
4. Run vagrant gatling-rsync-auto to synchronise changes from your local machine to vagrant

Running semaphore inside vagrant

1. vagrant ssh, cd /opt/semaphore
2. npm install
3. bower install
4. npm install -g nodemon
5. nodemon bin/semaphore

Initial Login

Email:			'admin@semaphore.local'
Password:		'CastawayLabs'

Environment Variables

Use these variables to override the config.

Variable Name	Description	Default Value
PORT	Web Port	80
REDIS_PORT	Redis Port	6379
REDIS_HOST	Redis Hostname	127.0.0.1
REDIS_KEY	Redis auth key
BUGSNAG_KEY	Bugsnag API key
SMTP_USER	Mandrill smtp username
SMTP_PASS	Mandrill smtp password
MONGODB_URL	Mongodb URL	mongodb://127.0.0.1/semaphore

Vision and goals for v1

• Be able to specify environment information per playbook / per task
• Schedule jobs
• Email alerts
• Multiple user support

Note to Ansible guys

Thanks very much for making Ansible, and Ansible Tower. It is a great tool!. Your UI is pretty horrible though, and so we'd be happy if you could learn and use parts of this tool in your Tower.

It would be amazing if this could be your Community Edition of Ansible Tower.

License

MIT