Polemarch

Polemarch is service for orchestration infrastructure by ansible. Simply WEB gui for orchestration infrastructure by ansible playbooks.

Official site: https://gitlab.com/vstconsulting/polemarch

For any questions you could use issues tracker: https://gitlab.com/vstconsulting/polemarch/issues

Features

• scheduled tasks execution;
• share hosts, groups between projects;
• history of tasks execution with all details;
• easy configurable clustering for reliability and scalability:
• import Ansible projects from Git repository or tar archive;
• documentation: http://polemarch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ;
• groups of hosts and groups hierarchy;
• multiuser;
• responsive design;

Red Hat/CentOS installation

1. Download rpm from official site: https://github.com/vstconsulting/polemarch/releases

2. Install it with command

   sudo yum localinstall polemarch-X.X.X-0.x86_64.rpm.

3. Run services with commands

   sudo service polemarchweb start
   sudo service polemarchworker start

That's it. Polemarch web panel on 8080 port. Default administrative account is admin/admin.

Note: If you using authentication by password at some of your machines managed by Polemarch, you also must install sshpass package because it required for ansible to autheticate via ssh by password. It available in EPEL for Red Hat/CentOS. Also you can use specify connection command line argument during playbook run as paramiko. When ansible uses paramiko to make ssh connection, sshpass not necessary.

Ubuntu/Debian installation

1. Download deb from official site: https://github.com/vstconsulting/polemarch/releases

2. Install it with command

   sudo dpkg -i polemarch_X.X.X-0_amd64.deb || sudo apt-get install -f

3. Run services with commands

   sudo service polemarchweb start
   sudo service polemarchworker start

Note for Debian 9 users: Polemarch currently built with libssl1.0.0, so you need to install it for your distro:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2l-1~bpo8+1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.0.0_1.0.2l-1~bpo8+1_amd64.deb

That's it. Polemarch web panel on 8080 port. Default administrative account is admin/admin.

Quickstart

After you install Polemarch by instructions above you can use it without any further configurations. Interface is pretty intuitive and common for any web application.

Default installation is suitable for most simple and common cases, but Polemarch is highly configurable system. If you need something more advanced (scalability, dedicated DB, custom cache, logging or directories) you can always configure Polemarch like said in documentation at http://polemarch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

How to contribute

Refer to documentation page about that: http://polemarch.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contribute.html