semaphore's Introduction

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 \
  redis

Run mongodb

docker run -d \
  --name=mongodb \
  -p 127.0.0.1:27017:27017 \
  mongo

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

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

Running semaphore inside vagrant

vagrant ssh, cd /opt/semaphore
npm install
bower install
npm install -g nodemon
nodemon bin/semaphore

Initial Login

Email:			'[email protected]'
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`