Being a tool, its ease of use is very important for its spread. So in this section we will introduce a simple yet powerful web-framework for making the web interface for integration of Cobbler and Ansible.
Install following python packages.
# yum install -y gcc python-pip python-devel
# pip install bottle ansible
Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python, its website is:
http://www.bottlepy.org
You could follow the tutorial here for setting up a simple webserver:
http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html
We implemented following web routers in our python script:
listsystem: list all of the installed node information in Cobbler.
newsystem: Add a new node into Cobbler.
Node/nodename: Page for serving a single node during its deployment.
Deploy/nodename: Page for serving the deploying node.
These pages could be beautified using different js or css framework. Currently they didn't been prettified too much.
A Thread has been imported for serving the deployment precedure.
In this thread we could directly call one play-book, and let it run the deployment for us.
We use Bottle for combine the Cobbler/Ansible and provide the end-user a simple WEB UI. This provides a start-point for invoving more functionality.