Power IBM i collection for Ansible
The IBM i collection includes modules. action plugins, sample playbooks to automate tasks on IBM i.
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy.
IBM i systems can be managed nodes of Ansible. This project is to enrich IBM i support on Ansible, like providing more IBM i modules and examples to manage IBM i nodes.
Getting Started Articles
You may want to check out below articles first if you are new to Ansible for IBM i support.
https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/2020/05/01/ansible-automation-for-ibm-power-systems/
https://ibm.github.io/cloud-i-blog/archivers/2020_0602_automate_your_ibm_i_tasks_with_ansible
- Dependencies on IBM i node:
5733SC1 Base and Option 1
5770DG1
python3
python3-itoolkit
python3-ibm_db
Features
The IBM i collection includes action plugins, modules, sample playbooks, and ansible-doc to automate tasks on IBM i.
Copyright
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2020
License
Some portions of this collection are licensed under GNU General Public License, Version 3.0, and other portions of this collection are licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.
See individual files for applicable licenses.