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Ansible reporting with ARA

Andrea Dainese
March 09, 2025
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ARA Records Ansible provides a simple dashboard to visualize the execution of Ansible playbooks. It is not an orchestration tool but rather

ARA Records Ansible  provides a simple dashboard to visualize the execution of Ansible playbooks. It is not an orchestration tool but rather a reporting tool that facilitates visualization and troubleshooting.

ARA works with any Ansible playbook, regardless of how it is executed. Therefore, ARA can be integrated with other tools. However, the information stored by ARA can be enhanced by integrating playbooks with specific parameters.

To better understand ARA, we can explore the demo .

By configuring ARA as a callback, playbook execution results are stored in a database:

Installing and Configuring ARA

ARA is installed as a Python module:

pip install ara[server]

We then need to configure ARA as a callback. To do this, we run the following command:

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