Playbooks

Demo and reference playbook library for Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Organized by platform and integration — used for customer POCs, demos, and day-2 operations.

AWS playbooks have been moved to redawg/AWS_Playbooks

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Repository Structure

Playbooks/
├── AnsibleEE/          # Execution Environment utilities
├── Azure/              # Azure VM and network provisioning
├── Controller/         # AAP Controller API and management
├── dynatrace/          # Dynatrace OneAgent install/uninstall
├── ESXi/               # VMware ESXi VM deployment
├── infoblox/           # Infoblox DNS record management
├── lamp_simple/        # LAMP stack deploy (RHEL 7)
├── lamp_simple_rhel8/  # LAMP stack deploy (RHEL 8)
├── Lightspeed_Demo/    # Ansible Lightspeed demo plays
├── Netfacts/           # Network fact gathering
├── Network/            # Network device automation (IOS/NX-OS/ASA/EOS)
├── NetworkDiff/        # Network config diff and compliance
├── Openshift/          # OpenShift/OCP management
├── plex/               # Plex Media Server upgrade
├── roleonly_playbooks/ # Playbooks that call roles only
├── roles/              # Shared roles
├── SNOW/               # ServiceNow ITSM integration
├── Slack/              # Slack notifications
├── testplaybooks/      # Sandbox/test plays
└── Windows/            # Windows patching and feature management

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Platform Playbooks

Azure

Playbook	Description
createresourcegroup.yml	Create an Azure resource group
createvirtualnet.yml	Create a virtual network
createsubnet.yml	Add a subnet to a VNet
createpublicip.yml	Allocate a public IP address
createvmsecgroup.yml	Create a network security group
createvnicwithpublic.yml	Create a NIC with public IP attached
createvnicnopublic.yml	Create a NIC without public IP
createvm.yml	Deploy a VM from image
createvnetpeering.yml	Peer two Azure VNets
startserver.yml	Start a stopped Azure VM
stopserver.yml	Deallocate (stop) an Azure VM
deleteVM.yml	Delete a VM
deleteresourcegroup.yml	Delete a resource group and all resources
getpubip.yml	Get public IP of a VM

Network (IOS / NX-OS / ASA / EOS)

Playbook	Description
ios-backup.yml	Back up IOS running configuration
eos-backup.yml	Back up EOS running configuration
nxos-backup.yml	Back up NX-OS running configuration
asa-backup.yml	Back up ASA configuration
restoreconfig.yml	Restore a configuration from backup file
ios_facts.yml	Gather and display IOS device facts
ios_vlans.yml	Manage VLANs on IOS devices
ios_snmp.yml	Configure SNMP on IOS devices
ios_ntp.yml	Configure NTP on IOS devices
ios_setBanner.yml	Set login/MOTD banner
ios_configint.yml	Configure interface settings
ios_enabledisableint.yml	Enable or disable an interface
ios_changeintdesc.yml	Update interface description
ios-interface-validate.yml	Validate interface state against expected
upgradeios.yml	Upgrade IOS software
asa-changeacl.yml	Modify ACL entries on ASA
runcli.yml	Run arbitrary CLI commands

Network Diff / Compliance

Playbook	Description
running_vs_startup.yml	Diff running config vs startup config
running_vs_intended.yml	Diff running config vs intended (golden) config
change_vs_running.yml	Diff a proposed change against running config
CreateHTMLinventory.yml	Generate HTML inventory report

ServiceNow (SNOW)

Playbook	Description
trigger_SNOW_ticket.yaml	Open a ServiceNow incident
linux_httpd_patch_snow.yaml	Patch httpd and create/update SNOW ticket
linux_httpd_rollback_snow.yaml	Roll back httpd patch and update SNOW ticket
linux_httpd_rollback_snow_update_with_approval.yaml	Rollback with SNOW approval gate
remediate_expand_fs_snow.yaml	Expand filesystem and update SNOW ticket
batch_copy_snow.yaml	Batch copy files, create SNOW ticket
batch_copy_remediate_snow.yaml	Batch copy + remediate with SNOW tracking
getcurrentincidents.yml	Query and display open incidents
add_to_Tower_inventory.yaml	Add a SNOW CMDB host to AAP inventory
web_app_health.yaml	Check web app health, open SNOW ticket on failure

Slack

Playbook	Description
slackalert.yml	Send a custom Slack message (reusable, survey-driven)
slackafailedtaskalert.yml	Alert snippet for failed task notifications

Windows

Playbook	Description
update_windows.yml	Apply Windows updates
install_apps.yml	Install applications via package manager
cleanup_apps.yml	Uninstall/cleanup applications
install_windows_iss.yml	Install IIS web server
win_feature.yml	Enable/disable Windows features
validate_CVE-2020-1350.yml	Validate CVE-2020-1350 (SIGRed) patch status

AAP Controller

Playbook	Description
exportcontroller.yml	Export AAP Controller configuration
createcustomcredtype.yml	Create a custom credential type via API
licenseupdate.yml	Update AAP Controller license
apigethostv3.yml	Query Controller API v3 for host info
apiquerylastjobrun.yml	Get details of the last job run for a template

Dynatrace

Playbook	Description
installagent.yml	Install Dynatrace OneAgent
linuxclientinstall.yml	Linux-specific OneAgent install
uninstalllinux.yml	Uninstall OneAgent from Linux

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Collections Required

# collections/requirements.yml
collections:
  - name: azure.azcollection
  - name: community.general
  - name: amazon.aws
  - name: ansible.posix
  - name: community.aws
  - name: servicenow.itsm
  - name: cisco.ios
  - name: cisco.nxos
  - name: cisco.asa
  - name: arista.eos
  - name: ansible.windows

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Variable Convention

Playbooks define blank variables that must be supplied via AAP Controller surveys or extra vars. Credentials injected by AAP Controller credential types are noted with comments.

vars:
  target_host: ''         # passed via survey
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ''   # passed from AAP Controller credential
  SN_HOST: ''             # passed from ServiceNow credential type