Added remote templating engine using jinja2, see examples/playbook.yml for usage.

Cleanup is due in runner.py

README.md

@@ -39,9 +39,13 @@ Requirements
 For the server the tool is running from, *only*:
 
     * python 2.6 -- or the 2.4/2.5 backport of the multiprocessing module
-    * PyYAML (if using playbooks)
+    * PyYAML (install on 'overlord' if using playbooks)
     * paramiko
 
+Optional -- If you want to push templates, the nodes need:
+
+    * python-jinja2 
+
 Inventory file
 ==============
 

lib/ansible/runner.py

@@ -119,7 +119,12 @@ class Runner(object):
            result = self._exec_command(conn, cmd)
            self._exec_command(conn, "rm -f %s" % outpath)
            conn.close()
-           return [ host, True, json.loads(result) ]
+           try:
+               return [ host, True, json.loads(result) ]
+           except:
+               traceback.print_exc()
+               return [ host, False, result ]
+
        elif self.module_name == 'copy':
            # SFTP file copy module is not really a module
            self.remote_log(conn, 'COPY remote:%s local:%s' % (self.module_args[0], self.module_args[1]))
@@ -128,25 +133,47 @@ class Runner(object):
            ftp.close()
            conn.close()
            return [ host, True, 1 ]
+
        elif self.module_name == 'template':
            # template runs COPY then the template module
            # TODO: DRY/refactor these
            # TODO: things like _copy_module should take the name as a param
-           tempname = os.path.split(self.module_args[0])[-1]
+           # TODO: make it possible to override the /etc/ansible/setup file
+           #       location for templating files as non-root
+
+           source   = self.module_args[0]
+           dest     = self.module_args[1]
+           metadata = '/etc/ansible/setup'
+
+           # first copy the source template over
+           tempname = os.path.split(source)[-1]
            temppath = self._get_tmp_path(conn, tempname)
-           self.remote_log(conn, 'COPY remote:%s local:%s' % (self.module_args[0], temppath))
+           self.remote_log(conn, 'COPY remote:%s local:%s' % (source, temppath))
            ftp = conn.open_sftp()
-           ftp.put(self.module_args[0], temppath)
+           ftp.put(source, temppath)
            ftp.close()
+
+           # install the template module
            self.module_name = 'template'
-           self.module_args = [ self.module_args[0], temppath ]
+           self.module_args = [ source, temppath ]
            outpath = self._copy_module(conn)
+
+           # run the template module
+           self.module_args = [ temppath, dest, metadata ]
            self._exec_command(conn, "chmod +x %s" % outpath)
            result = self._exec_command(conn, self._command(outpath))
            self._exec_command(conn, "rm -f %s" % outpath)
+           self._exec_command(conn, "rm -f %s" % temppath)
+
+           # TODO: remove tmppath
            conn.close()
-           return [ host, True, json.loads(result) ]
-           
+           try:
+               return [ host, True, json.loads(result) ]
+           except:
+               traceback.print_exc()
+               return [ host, False, result ]
+
+           return [ host, False, 1 ]
 
    def _command(self, outpath):
        ''' form up a command string '''

library/command

@@ -4,17 +4,26 @@ try:
 	import json
 except ImportError:
 	import simplejson as json
+
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import datetime
+import traceback
 
 args = sys.argv[1:]
 startd = datetime.datetime.now()
 
-cmd = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=False, 
-    stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+try:
+    cmd = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=False, 
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    out, err = cmd.communicate()
+except:
+    print json.dumps({
+        "failed" : 1,
+        "traceback" : traceback.format_exc()
+    })   
+    sys.exit(1)
 
-out, err = cmd.communicate()
 endd = datetime.datetime.now()
 delta = endd - startd
 

library/setup

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 ANSIBLE_DIR       = "/etc/ansible"
 ANSIBLE_SETUP     = "/etc/ansible/setup"
-ANSIBLE_TEMPLATES = "/srv/ansible/templates"
 
 import sys
 import os
@@ -18,12 +17,6 @@ except ImportError:
 input_data = sys.argv[1:]
 new_options = dict([ x.split("=") for x in input_data ])
 
-# make a directory to store templates
-# if it does not already exist
-
-if not os.path.exists(ANSIBLE_TEMPLATES):
-    os.makedirs(ANSIBLE_TEMPLATES)
-
 # create the config dir if it doesn't exist
 
 if not os.path.exists(ANSIBLE_DIR):

library/template

@@ -1,3 +1,72 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 
-print {}
+import sys
+import os
+import jinja2
+try:
+     import json
+except ImportError:
+     import simplejson as json
+
+source   = sys.argv[1]
+dest     = sys.argv[2]
+metadata = sys.argv[3]
+ 
+# raise an error if there is no template metadata
+if not os.path.exists(metadata):
+    print json.dumps({
+        "failed" : 1,
+        "msg"    : "Missing %s, did you run the setup module yet?" % metadata
+    })
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# raise an error if we can't parse the template metadata
+try:
+   f = open(metadata)
+   data = json.loads(f.read())
+   f.close()
+except:
+   print json.dumps({
+       "failed" : 1,
+       "msg"    : "Failed to parse/load %s, rerun the setup module?" % metadata
+   })
+   sys.exit(1)
+
+if not os.path.exists(source):
+    print json.dumps({
+        "failed" : 1,
+        "msg"    : "Source template could not be read: %s" % source
+    })
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+source = file(source).read()
+
+# record md5sum of original source file so we can report if it changed
+changed = False
+md5sum = None
+if os.path.exists(dest):
+   md5sum = os.popen("md5sum %s" % dest).read()
+
+# call Jinja2 here and save the new template file
+template = jinja2.Template(source)
+data_out = template.render(data)
+f = open(dest, "w+")
+f.write(data_out)
+f.close()
+
+# TODO: catch templating errors and do not clobber the file on the
+# other end unless things were successful
+
+# record m5sum and return success and whether things have changed
+md5sum2 = os.popen("md5sum %s" % dest).read()
+
+if md5sum != md5sum2:
+   changed = True
+
+# mission accomplished
+print json.dumps({
+   "md5sum"   : md5sum2,
+   "changed"  : changed 
+})
+
+