Tower-cli Bulk Fake Data Creator

This is a populator for Ansible Tower, which creates a large amount of fake data, and it relies on the libraries from tower-cli.

Tower-cli is a command-line interface for the Ansible Tower API, but it can also be used as a python module, and that is the type of use here.

Usage

Configuration Data

This relies on tower-cli configuration already existing and working.

tower-cli config username my_user
tower-cli config password p4ssword
tower-cli config host http://tower.example.com

# Make sure the connection is working
tower-cli user list

Running

The create_data.py script takes a command line argument and then creates a batch of fake data. Data creation proceeds in phases, which mirror the dependences of resources in Ansible Tower. These go in order of the following:

Creation order:

• Organizations
• Teams
• Projects
• Users
• Job Templates

These don't necessarily need to go in this order, and you could draw a graph with arrows of what's needed for others. Each of these have best-available isolation.

You probably want to poke around a bit before you dump a lot of data. See the commands that a full run would produce with:

python create_data.py demo

Create just a few of a resource by specifying the number, and/or avoid actually creating them with the debug option.

python create_data.py organization 3 debug

To run the data creation program (the FULL program) defined by the counts in the Nres dictionary...

python create_data.py all

Alternatively, define a file with the resources and counts (as yaml) in it and give that as an argument.

python create_data.py run_data.yml

For example, your file might say to create 2 users and 1 project, and this command will carry out the creation of those.

Getting API Response Times

Store your credentials in a yaml file.

python time_test.py creds.yml

This will give the response times at from all the top level endpoints.