Use Ansible with Automation
Before you begin
To manage Jira space automations, you must have the appropriate space permissions:
Company-managed spaces: You’ll need the Administer space and Browse space permissions for your space. Learn more about permissions for company-managed spaces
Team-managed spaces: You’ll need Administrator app access for your space. Learn more about permissions for team-managed spaces
To manage global automations, you’ll need the Administer Jira permission. Learn more about global permissions in Jira Cloud.
In Ansible, make sure you have configured the following settings so your connection works properly:
Open up the
HTTPSport in the Ansible Automation controller. Read more about Ansible network ports and protocolsEnable X-origin requests for Automation in Ansible. Read how to enable X-original requests in Ansible
You’ll need to makeCORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = Trueand add your Jira site's URL to allowed regexes, likeCORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN_REGEXES = [r"<https://<your_jira_site>>.atlassian.net*",]If you use a firewall, allow the Atlassian IP address
[IP address]to ensure access to Ansible Automation Controller. Read more about Atlassian IP addresses and domains
Integrate your automation flow with Ansible
You can use your existing application in Ansible to connect to Atlassian Automation. If you don’t have an application, create a new one. Read how to create an application in Ansible to get started. Use the details below while creating:
Redirect URIs: https://id.atlassian.com/outboundAuth/finish
Client Type: Confidential
Authorisation Grant Type: Authorisation CodeIn Jira Service Management, go to Automation and select Create flow.
Select the Ansible action for your flow. Launch job template in Ansible is the only available action at the moment.
Select Connect to create a connection with Ansible. Connections allow your automation flows to make changes in other tools and products.
In your connection, enter the application information that you wish to connect to Atlassian Automation.
Application name. Provide a unique name to easily identify your Ansible connection. This doesn’t have to be the name of the application, but mentioning the application name with a unique identifier can help. For example, Acme A or Acme B, where Acme is the name of the application and A/B are the unique values.
Client ID. The client ID of the application in Ansible. It’s shown only once after you create an application.
Client secret. The client secret of the application in Ansible. It’s shown only once after you create an application.
Ansible Tower URL. This is usually the URL from the address bar of your browser while you’re in the Ansible Automation Controller.
Select Connect to complete creating your connection.
This action supports waiting for response (only for Enterprise plans)
When enabled, the flow will resume only if Ansible returns a success response within 15 minutes. Else, the flow will fail.
You can choose to resume the flow even on failure response, which means even if Ansible doesn’t return a success response within 15 minutes, the flow will resume anyway.
To access the payload from Ansible, you can use the {{ansibleJobTemplate.output}} smart value.
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